title: R-2.15 on AIX5.3 - rl_readline_name error and configure
body: <p>I am trying to install R package on AIX5.3. I've two queries regarding it:</p>
  
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  <li>I followed <a href="http://www.hep.by/gnu/r-patched/r-admin/R-admin_97.html" rel="nofollow">Fan Long's</a> steps. I installed the GNU utilities: libiconv and gettext also. However, on running</li>
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  <blockquote>
    <p>./configure --with-libpth-prefix=/home/jayant/utils --disable-nls --without-libintl-prefiX --with-included-gettext=home/jayant/utils --with-blas="-llapack -lessl -lblas" --prefix=home/jayant/R-2.15.3</p>
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  <p>I get the following error:</p>
  
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    <p>"sys-std.c", line 893.13: 1506-045 (S) Undeclared identifier rl_readline_name.</p>
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  <li>Native 'sed' on aix does not support '-e' option. I installed sed from GNU utilities. In the configure script, how should I force it to take my sed instead of the native one. I tried </li>
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  <blockquote>
    <p>export sed=/home/jayant/sed-4.2/bin/sed.</p>
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  <p>but it does'nt work? </p>