On 10/31/2011 06:30 PM, Cable, Sam B Civ USAF AFMC AFRL/RVBXI wrote: > I am trying to install R on a pretty up-to-date CentOS system. I have > tried installing 2.14.0 and 2.13.2. In both cases, the configure step > fails, and does not produce a Makefile. So, of course, I can't issue > "make". > > The errors that I can find in config.log are, first, several missing > files: ac_nonexistent.h, minix/config.h., readline/history.h, and > readline/readline.h. > > Then, what seems to finally bring configure to a halt is the final > error: > > configure:20796: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs > are not available
Hi, It seems that the header files/libs are not available... You probably need to install some development libraries from the CentOS repositories. like readline-dev or such. Installing these libraries and the header files will be available. regards, Paul > After this error, configure dumps long lists of shell variables, output > variables, and confdefs.h -- none of which tell a whole lot, as far as I > can see -- and then exits with a status of "1". > > Anyone know what this means? I can give bigger snippets of the > config.log, if anyone wants to see them. > > I have installed R on several Linux machines. This is the first time > I've been stumped. > > Thanks. > > --Sam > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Paul Hiemstra, Ph.D. Global Climate Division Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) Wilhelminalaan 10 | 3732 GK | De Bilt | Kamer B 3.39 P.O. Box 201 | 3730 AE | De Bilt tel: +31 30 2206 494 http://intamap.geo.uu.nl/~paul http://nl.linkedin.com/pub/paul-hiemstra/20/30b/770 ______________________________________________ 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.