[R] repost-configure error on Mandriva 2007

[Marc Schwartz]

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 15:33 -0800, Bricklemyer, Ross S wrote:
> All,
> 
> Apparently the attachment did not make it through the list serve.
> 
> I am having difficulty installing R-2.4.1 on Mandriva Linux 2007
> Discovery.  Thanks to the help of Doug Bates I got further along the
> path (Thanks Doug!!).  I now cannot figure out which line of code needs
> modified in order for configure to complete.  Please see below for the
> last several lines of output.
> 
> 
> checking whether the gfortran linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64)
> supports shared libraries... yes
> checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
> checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
> checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
> checking whether makeinfo version is at least 4.7... yes
> checking for cos in -lm... yes
> checking for sin in -lm... yes
> checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes
> checking readline/history.h usability... yes
> checking readline/history.h presence... yes
> checking for readline/history.h... yes
> checking readline/readline.h usability... yes
> checking readline/readline.h presence... yes
> checking for readline/readline.h... yes
> checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no
> checking for main in -lncurses... no
> checking for main in -ltermcap... no
> checking for main in -ltermlib... no
> checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no
> checking for history_truncate_file... no
> configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not
> available

You need to have the readline development related files installed. On
RPM based systems it is typically called 'readline-devel' or similar.

Install that RPM and you should be good to go.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz