On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Benjamin Otto wrote: > Dear Mr. Ripley, > > thanks for the quick reply. I set these flags now, however there still seem > to be some problems with readline. The corresponding cofigure output is: > > checking readline/history.h usability... yes > checking readline/history.h presence... yes > checking for readline/history.h... yes > checking readline/readline.h usability... yes > checking readline/readline.h presence... yes > checking for readline/readline.h... yes > checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no > checking for main in -lncurses... no > checking for main in -ltermcap... yes > checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no > checking for history_truncate_file... no > configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not > available
What does config.log say? It looks like it is not finding libreadline.so. You may need LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to include where it is. > The existing compiler is gcc version 2.8.1 and the linker editor used by gcc Wow, that is really old! > is an IRIX ld version 7.30. By the way I had read the installation manual > and already patched readline 5.1. > >>> --with-readline use readline library (if available) [yes] > > The lpack linking > > --with-lapack="-L/path/to/libs -llapack -lcblas" > > was the reason why I thought I could at least give it a try with the command > > --with-readline="-L/$HOME/vol/readline" > > However, I admit I missed the passage about the LDFLAGS and should have > search more thoroughly in the docu. Still I'm a little bit confused where > the current remaining problem is. I gave it a try with readline 5.0, which > seem to me to be the newest version not needing any patches, same problem. > Is this some compiler and linker problem? > > regards, > benjamin > > > which was the reason why I thought I could give it > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: 02 February 2006 14:39 >> To: Benjamin Otto >> Cc: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch >> Subject: Re: [R] readline detection problems >> >> >> Moved to R-devel: please see the posting guide. This WAY off topic for >> R-help. >> >> Please do read the installation manual: configure --help says >> >> --with-readline use readline library (if available) [yes] >> >> and note, no path can be specified. The installation manual says >> >> If you have libraries and header files, e.g., for GNU readline, in >> non-system directories, use the variables LDFLAGS (for libraries, using >> `-L' flags to be passed to the linker) and CPPFLAGS (for header files, >> using `-I' flags to be passed to the C/C++ preprocessors), >> respectively, >> to specify these locations. These default to LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib >> (/usr/local/lib64 on most 64-bit Linux OSes) and >> CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include to catch the most common cases. >> >> My guess is that you need something like >> >> CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -I/home3/fa/faga001/vol/readline-5.1/include >> LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib -L/home3/fa/faga001/vol/readline-5.1/lib >> >> If this really is readline-5.1, don't use it. It needs a patch >> (I believe >> the one found on the GNU mirror suffices) or it is badly broken, >> enough to >> crash the calling application. >> >> >> On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Benjamin Otto wrote: >> >>> Dear community, >>> >>> I'm trying to install R-2.2.1 on an IRIX 6.2 (Unix System V Release 4) >>> system without root access. Unfortunately readline is not installed in >>> default, so I installed it locally in my home directory, more >> precisely in: >>> $HOME/vol/readline-5.1, where $HOME is "/home3/fa/faga001". Afterwards I >>> appended the path to the library with several $PATH variable, which now >>> looks like: >>> >>> >> PATH=:/usr/sbin:/usr/bsd:/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/loc >> al/bin:/us >>> >> r/freeware/bin:/usr/local/bin:.:/home3/fa/faga001/vol:/home3/fa/fa >> ga001/vol/ >>> readline-5.1:/home3/fa/faga001/vol/readline-5.1/lib >>> >>> Still, readline is not detected by the configure script. I tried the >>> commands: >>> >>> ./configure --with-readline="-L/$HOME/vol/readline" >>> ./configure --with-readline="/$HOME/vol/readline" >>> ./configure --with-readline=/$HOME/vol/readline >>> ./configure --x-includes="-L/$HOME/vol/readline" >>> ./configure --x-includes="/$HOME/vol/readline" >>> ./configure --x-libraries="-L/$HOME/vol/readline" >>> ./configure --x-libraries="/$HOME/vol/readline" >>> >>> trying out the different path variants which I previously >> included in the >>> $PATH variable. Nothing helps yet. According to printenv there >> is currently >>> no kind of $LIBRARY or sth. like that defined, but maybe the path should >>> rather be included in such an env. variable, I didn't find any >> hint in the >>> documentation. >>> >>> Has someone an idea how I should link my local readline >> correctly, so that >>> the library is found not only during installtion but afterwards too? >> >> -- >> 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 >> > > -- 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 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
