This looks like a readline version problem for the shell /bin/sh (presumably actually bash) you have installed. Do you have an older version of readline somewhere on your system?
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Ulrich Flenker wrote: > Dear R-helpers, > > for the first time since R-0.6x I have to face installation problem. I > switched to a new Linux-box (SuSE 9.0) and installed as many libraries as > possible. > > R-1.9.0.tgz went to /usr/local/lib and was extracted without problems. > > After running properly for a while, 'configure' (called without any > switches) gave > "configure: creating ./config.status" which was followed by > "/bin/sh: relocation error: /bin/sh: undefined symbol: > rl_completion_suppress_append". > > The last line obviously wasn't produced by 'configure' as it came via > stderr. > > No makefile was created. I ran './config.status' followed by 'make'. After > several minutes of behaving nice, the compilation process aborted with > the following output: > > > make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/lib/R-1.9.0/src/library' > sh: relocation error: sh: undefined symbol: rl_completion_suppress_append > sh: relocation error: sh: undefined symbol: rl_completion_suppress_append > sh: relocation error: sh: undefined symbol: rl_completion_suppress_append > sh: relocation error: sh: undefined symbol: rl_completion_suppress_append > sh: relocation error: sh: undefined symbol: rl_completion_suppress_append > sh: relocation error: sh: undefined symbol: rl_completion_suppress_append > sh: relocation error: sh: undefined symbol: rl_completion_suppress_append > sh: relocation error: sh: undefined symbol: rl_completion_suppress_append > sh: relocation error: sh: undefined symbol: rl_completion_suppress_append > sh: relocation error: sh: undefined symbol: rl_completion_suppress_append > make[2]: *** [Rdfiles] Fehler 127 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/lib/R-1.9.0/src/library' > make[1]: *** [docs] Fehler 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/lib/R-1.9.0/src/library' > make: [docs] Fehler 2 (ignoriert) > make[1]: Entering directory > `/usr/local/lib/R-1.9.0/src/library/Recommended' > make[2]: Entering directory > `/usr/local/lib/R-1.9.0/src/library/Recommended' > make[2]: Leaving directory > `/usr/local/lib/R-1.9.0/src/library/Recommended' > make[2]: Entering directory > `/usr/local/lib/R-1.9.0/src/library/Recommended' > MAKE="make" R_LIBS= ../../../bin/R CMD INSTALL -l ../../../library > survival.tgz > sh: relocation error: sh: undefined symbol: rl_completion_suppress_append > make[2]: *** [survival.ts] Fehler 127 > make[2]: Leaving directory > `/usr/local/lib/R-1.9.0/src/library/Recommended' > make[1]: *** [recommended-packages] Fehler 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/usr/local/lib/R-1.9.0/src/library/Recommended' > make: *** [stamp-recommended] Fehler 2 > > The same occured when trying to build R-1.8.0 on my new system. In > contrast it configured and compiled nicely on my 4 year old Linux > system. Can somebody help? -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html