"Liaw, Andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > From: Lars Schouw > > > > Can anyone explain what this means the NEWS for for > > 2.1 beta? > > > > R is now linked against ncurses/termlib/termcap only > > if > > readline is specified (now the default) and that > > requires it. > > > > I get an error while running configure: > > checking for history_truncate_file... no > > configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and > > headers/libs are not available > > It means what it says: configure will try to find > ncurses/termcap/readline (and their headers) unless > you explicitly say --with-readline=no.
..the point being that you now get an error during configure, instead of a just build with non-functioning arrow keys. (If you're a sysadmin, you will catch the issue immediately, rather than your users at some later point...) (On Linux systems, it usually just means that you need to install readline-devel and ncurses-devel packages.) -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
