On Dec 29, 2011, at 7:14 PM, Cable, Sam B Civ USAF AFMC AFRL/RVBXI wrote: > Am trying to install 2.14.0 on a CentOS system. The configure script > apparently can't find something to do with the readline library: > > Configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not > available > > Yes, I know I need readline 4.2 or later. "yum" assures me that rev 5.1 > is already installed. > > And I know I need to provide configuration flags if it is in a > non-system directory, but such is not the case. readline was put in > with a standard OS installation. > > And I know that I need the full developer package, as opposed to the > user only versions, but the heck if I can find any such separate > package. "yum" doesn't know anything about it. > > So, in short, I have a completely standard install of readline, as far > as I can tell, but the configure script can't find it. > > Anyone have any ideas? > > Thanks.
Hi, The typical solution would be to install the readline-devel RPM, which is where the header files, etc. would be available. So as root: yum install readline-devel or if you have sudo enabled: sudo yum install readline-devel HTH, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ 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.
