[R] WG: Problem during porting R-2.7.2 on HP-UP 11.11 PA-Risc

[Martyn Plummer]

On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 15:35 +0200, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> claus-juergen.neumann at basf.com wrote:
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> >                                         Problem during porting R-2.7.2 on  
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> > Dear "R"-Team,
> > we had some problem to install R-2.7.2 on HP-UX 11.11 on PA-Risc platform.
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> > 1.) i load down the Software and made a extract of the tar-file in a
> > specific Directory.
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> > 2.) i follow the instructions on the INSTALL file:
> >      ./configure
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> > 3.) during "configure" we got a error message see below:
> >      checking for history_truncate_file... no
> >      configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are
> > not available
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> >     and the "configure" stops.
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> > on the HP-UX server there are the HP Compiler and the GNU compiler with
> > gmake and and ... installed.
> > Please have a look to my logfiles. Hopefully you had a idea what we can do.
> > Thanks a lot for your help
> >   
> Attachments are chopped by the mailing list softare, and the r-devel
> list would have been a better choice.
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> Anyways, the error is what it says: You are trying to use the readline
> library and it or its headers isn't there (at least not where configure
> looks for it). So either install them or use --with-readline=no and live
> without commandline recall. This is explained  at a number of places in
> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html (search for "readline").

Don't forget to also read the platform-specific notes on HP-UX in
appendix C.5 of the same document.  This may help you with any further
problems.


> > (See attached file: BASF_CONFIGURE.log.txt)(See attached file:
> > config.log.txt)
> >
> > very best regards
> > Claus-Juergen Neumann


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