I do not know exactly about Sun Sparc but I use some *nix and readline is a library available and is used by the operating system to recall lines of previously typed input. So I suggest to search readline package for Sun Sparc.
Good luck Caveman On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:18 AM, <ted.h.f...@kp.org> wrote: > Dear R-HELP, > > We are compiling R-2.12.1 for 64 bits onto a Sun Sparc machine below: > SunOS 5.10 Generic_142900-13 sun4u sparc SUNW,Netra-T12 > > The source was compiled successfully with "gcc version 3.4.6" by using the > default configuration and has produced R-2.12.1 in 32 bits. > > Compiling R-2.12.1 for the 64 bits by configuring the config.site file as > follow: > CC="gcc -m64" > F77="f77 -m64" > CXX="g++ -m64" > FC=$F77 > CPPFLAGS='-I/usr/sfw/include' > LDFLAGS='-L/usr/lib/64 -L/usr/sfw/lib/64 -L/usr/sfw/lib/sparcv9 > -L/usr/sfw/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.10/3.4.3/sparcv9' > > > has produced following messages: > configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not > available > See attached configure.out.txt file and config.site file . > > > Appreciate your help to identify the missing header/libs when compiling > R-2.12.1 for 64 bits on the above platform ? > > The R-2.11.1 compiled version from Sunfreeware download is verified to be > 32 bits. > > .Machine$sizeof.pointer > [1] 4 > This should return 8 for 64 bits. > > Would there be a compiled version of R-2.12.1 64 bits available for > download ? > > Thanks > Ted Fong > > NOTICE TO RECIPIENT: If you are not the intended recipient of this > e-mail, you are prohibited from sharing, copying, or otherwise using or > disclosing its contents. If you have received this e-mail in error, > please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and permanently > delete this e-mail and any attachments without reading, forwarding or > saving them. Thank you. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.