[K12OSN] Re: cran.r-project - making header/libs for readline available for configure

[Paul Karrel]

  11. Re: cran.r-project \How do I resolve the symbol BC in
      readline.so.5 (Nils Breunese)
 Hi 
thanks for the suggestion; I installed R from source but ran into a problem concerning the readline libraries. Specifically I could only invoke 
./configure -with--noreadline as a parameter . The error message  says that readline header\libs is unavailable. Previous to compiling the program I installed  readline & readline dev, (via yum), I think they installed properly because all the editing function are available in a terminal session. MY question is what are header/libs and how can I setup my system so that the configure process can find them? 



Message: 11
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:57:30 +0100
From: Nils Breunese <nils at breun.nl>
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] cran.r-project \How do I resolve the symbol BC
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Paul Karrel wrote:

> I am requesting assistance installing R-2.6.8.2.fc7.x86_64(a  
> statistical package). I used the command rpm -i --test  
> R-2.6.8.2.fc7.x86_64  there were no errors so I issued the command  
> yum install   R-2.6.8.2.fc7.x86_64 there was a warning  about nokey  
> but the software was installed. When I try to use the software the  
> error mesasge is  libreadline.so.5 symbol lookup error undefined  
> symbol: BC.  Where might I find some info. A google has one hit but  
> no answer on how to repair>. I  searched the K-12 Linux wiki but  
> there was no hits. I have ncurses installed and it's libraries. I am  
> using repositories  from a k12ltsp 6.0.0-64 install.
> How do I resolve the symbol BC in readline?.so.5

Installing a Fedora 7 package on Fedora Core 6 might just cause you no  
end of pain to get working. If R is not available in FC6 repositories  
I'd look into trying to rebuild the source rpm (if you're comfortable  
doing that) or else installing R from source (I suppose upgrading to  
K12LTSP 7 is not an option as I believe that isn't stable yet?).

Nils Breunese.
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Paul Karrel
Trent University