From p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk  Wed Sep 11 10:55:13 2002
From: p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA)
Date: 11 Sep 2002 11:55:13 +0200
Subject: [R] Readline problem.
In-Reply-To: <15743.3989.985902.262902@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
References: <200209101510.MAA20735@gelfand.math.unb.ca>
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Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:

> Ehhm, your last note is not true in general (I know you talked
> about Solaris, but still):
> 
> On Redhat 7.1 and 7.3 (here),  
> readline is available both as .so and .a
> and R uses the .so one :
...
>     PD> Hm? I wouldn't expect to find those symbols in a dynamic library, and
>     PD> readline hasn't come in dynamic form previously (I have only
>     PD> libreadline.a). Where did you get it from?

Actually it's not even true for Solaris. I got a sense of deja vu,
looked through my install logs, and found that I had *deleted*
libreadline.so because it conflicted with gcc 3.0.1 when building R
(this was almost exactly a year ago on Sep 10, 2001; the events of the
following day might have dislodged things from my memory!)

That is of course still a possible workaround... 
Or downgrading to gcc 2.95.3, which seems more and more attractive
given all the trouble with gcc 3.x.

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[R] Readline problem.
Peter Dalgaard BSA