[K12OSN] Re: cran.r-project - making header/libs for readline available for configure

[Nils Breunese]

Paul Karrel wrote:

> thanks for the suggestion; I installed R from source but ran into a  
> problem concerning the readline libraries. Specifically I could only  
> invoke
> ./configure -with--noreadline as a parameter . The error message   
> says that readline header\libs is unavailable. Previous to compiling  
> the program I installed  readline & readline dev, (via yum), I think  
> they installed properly because all the editing function are  
> available in a terminal session. MY question is what are header/libs  
> and how can I setup my system so that the configure process can find  
> them?

I'd think installing the readline-devel package should have done it,  
but if it didn't I suggest you take this up with the R developers as  
they are probably familiar with compiling their software. Or maybe you  
can ask the Fedora 7 packager for (help on) a Fedora Core 6 package.

Nils Breunese.
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