One way is setting the (or adding to an existing one) environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to your directory (.../local/R/readline); there are other related ways described in the "R Administration/Installation" manual which I'd warmly recommend consulting here.
If that is really /local/R/... I guess the resulting R will only run on your workstation which is a bit unfortunate. Did you try to convince your sys.admin installing readline "globally"? Hoping this helps, Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/ Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH-Zentrum LEO C16 Leonhardstr. 27 ETH (Federal Inst. Technology) 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND phone: x-41-1-632-3408 fax: ...-1228 <>< >>>>> "Jean" == Jean Eid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> on Tue, 8 Jul 2003 09:45:20 -0400 writes: Jean> I am trying to install R 1.7.1 on a Jean> sparc-sun-solaris2.8 system. although gnu readline is Jean> installed and works fine on the parent directory, R is Jean> not recognizing it. I get the following in the Jean> config.log file. Jean> configure:11627: checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline Jean> configure:11658: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -L/usr/local/lib Jean> conftest.c -lreadline -ldl -ltermcap -lm >&5 Jean> ld: fatal: library -lreadline: not found Jean> ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to conftest Jean> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Jean> I also tried to install the most recent version of Jean> readline (version 4.3) with no luck. as I do not have Jean> root access to the system I have included the readline Jean> directory in my home path. I beleive that I have to Jean> change the path of the readline library from Jean> usr/local/lib to my own which is on /local/R/readline, Jean> however I do not want to change the configure file Jean> without making sure I am doing the right thing, Any Jean> help is appreciated, ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
