Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] Maxima GUIs/emacs troubles! (and commutativity issues)

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  OK, I've replaced the "termcap" from the original readline
patch with "ncurses".  On my debian systems, libtermcap is a link to
libncurses anyway.  And the original patch author had a comment
indicating that ncruses could be used on some systems.  Try it out --
it should hopefully work fine.

take care,

James Amundson <address@hidden> writes:

> On my RedHat 7.2 system, the gcl 2.5.0 configure script failed to detect
> my readline installation because the link failed. It is easy to not
> notice that the check has failed -- it's buried in a long set of
> messages. The following patch fixed the problem for me:
> 
> 
> |addiator>cvs diff configure
> Index: configure
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/gcl/gcl/configure,v
> retrieving revision 1.11.2.13
> diff -r1.11.2.13 configure
> 1774c1774
> < LIBS="-lreadline  $LIBS"
> ---
> > LIBS="-lreadline -lncurses $LIBS"
> 
> Unfortunately, I doubt that the fix is general. I don't know why
> RedHat's readline depends on ncurses, while other readlines apparently
> do not.
> 
> --Jim
> 
> On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 23:01, Camm Maguire wrote:
> > Greetings!  On my gcl 2.5.0 build, tab completion, backspace, Emacs
> > keys (i.e. Alt-b to back over a word), and the back arrow all work.
> > Are you sure you have a working terminal?  Does bash show the expected
> > behavior?  What about gcl directly from the command prompt?
> > 
> > C Y <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > --- Daniel Lemire <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > Good day,
> > > > 
> > > > Ok, I built both GCL and maxima... seems to work so far. I do have 
> > > > backspace... that's nice.
> > > > 
> > > > Not to be ungrateful or anything, but why can't I get the back arrow 
> > > > now? ;-) Right now, if you make a mistake at the beginning of an 
> > > > expression, you have delete it all to correct the mistake. This
> > > > reminds  me of the good old days... back when 16 KB was a lot of 
> > > > memory... ;-) Is it just me or is lisp really backward?
> > > 
> > > Clisp will allow the back arrow - I'm not really sure why gcl isn't,
> > > provided you are using the .  Camm?
> > > 
> > > > Ok, well things got a bit better... now, I'm just hoping that some of
> > > > the bugs I found (should I report computational bugs? what is the
> > > > state of maxima??? I suspect some of these bugs are lisp related...?)
> > > 
> > > Go ahead and report them - whatever the cause, it needs to be
> > > identified and fixed.
> > > 
> > > You can also enter them into the bug tracker at the sourceforge project
> > > site - that's probably the best way to make sure they are checked when
> > > we get ready to release (whenever that is.)
> > > 
> > > CY
> > > 
> > > 
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> > Camm Maguire                                                address@hidden
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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