Gavin Simpson wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 17:58 -0400, T C wrote: >> I'm not sure if this is the place to post this question, but, I am >> having trouble compiling the source code. I do have a suitable C >> compiler and f2c but I get this error when I run ./configure >> >> configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are >> not available >> >> Any ideas? Thanks. > > You need the readline development headers, which in general are found in > <package_name>-devel package available for your distribution. You might > have readline installed, but clearly you don't have the development > headers or they are installed in a non-standard place that the configure > script can't find them. > > I'm not familiar with Ubuntu, but on Fedora the package you need is > readline-devel. Install it using Ubuntu's package manager and then try > to recompile.
On ubuntu (dapper) the package is: libreadline5-dev > > And please *don't* post to both R-Help *and* R-devel; posting to one > list is quite sufficient and only R-devel is the appropriate list for > questions of this nature. > > HTH > > G > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel