Hello,
I had the same problem with Solaris 7 and 8. I just
re-compile readline (I used the readline-4.2) and recompile R
and no problem afterwards. I think it's better
not using the sunfreeware package of readline, it doesn't works properly
(1 year ago).
Good luck
PS
a/ to have static or shared
I have compiled R under Solaris 7 (SunOS 5.7) with the readline-4.0
library linked. Command line editing appears to work, but I cannot
access command history. If I execute several commands in R, then type
"history()", I get the error message "Error in savehistory(file) : no
history available to s