I am not overly familar with Mint, but you need the "development version" of the readline library. If you have a GUI package manager installed, open it and search for readline. You should see a version that ends with -dev or -devel; you need to install that.
HTH, Peter On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 3:06 PM, p_connolly <p_conno...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > > I've installed R from the tgz file since about R-0.9.x following the > INSTALL instructions and have always succeeded using rpm-based OSes. > With each new OS, that involved installing various additional packages > before the configure script would complete. Figuring out which > packages were required usually involved searching for rpms that > supplied missing .so or .h files, dev packages or something else I > could figure out. > > I'm now trying to do the same with LinuxMint 17.2 but I got stuck when > this message came up: > > checking for main in -ltermlib... no > 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 > > Near the bottom of the log file it shows this: > > configure:6747: gcc -E -I/usr/local/include conftest.c > configure:6747: $? = 0 > configure:6761: gcc -E -I/usr/local/include conftest.c > conftest.c:17:28: fatal error: ac_nonexistent.h: No such file or > directory > #include <ac_nonexistent.h> > ^ > compilation terminated. > configure:6761: $? = 1 > configure: failed program was: > | /* confdefs.h */ > | #define PACKAGE_NAME "R" > > So I'm assuming that's behind the failure. Searching shows the same > problem shows up in all sorts of places for decades, notably cygwin > users. But I didn't see anything that would help to work out what is > missing. > > Ideas greatly appreciated. > > > best > Patrick > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
