Re: 2.9.4 on mac OSX tiger

[Marius Schamschula]

On Jan 21, 2006, at 11:53 AM, Joe Koski wrote:

Carlo,

Great work! Sorry, but I don't have an answer to your .dylib question. You

might try posting it to the Apple unix-porting list

  http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo

to see if they have an answer. Most of your libreadline.dylib versions are

in the Fink directory, or are installed into /usr/local/lib, so it appears

that the one with the missing symbol is Apple's /usr/lib version. When you

move the /usr/lib version out of the way, then the linker probably finds the

/usr/local/lib version that works.

For what it's worth, on my OS X 10.3.9, I don't have a

/usr/lib/libreadline.dylib; I only have /usr/local/lib/libreadline.a

installed, and I don't recall when or how it got installed, since that

directory is usually empty on a new Mac installation.

See my previous post. /usr/lib/libreadline.dylib is a Mac OS X 10.4.x thing, not to be found in 10.3.9. It is NOT gnu readline compatible. There are a number of other such annoyances in Tiger, such as /usr/bin/locale and a few others.

Which Fortran compiler did you use, perhaps gfortran? Installed via .dmg

from the website?

Joe

on 1/21/06 9:19 AM, Carlo de Falco at address@hidden wrote:

I just managed to compile octave 2.9.4

on my ibook g3 running osx 10.4.4 with the

configuration options in the attached file

and it seems to work

quite fine exept that I couldn't manage

to link it to libreadline.

Configure crashes complaining  that

libreadline.dylib does not contain symbol

_rl_set_keyboard_input_timeout

actually I have many instances of readline:

/sw/lib/libreadline.4.2.dylib

/sw/lib/libreadline.4.3.dylib

/sw/lib/libreadline.4.dylib

/usr/lib/libreadline.dylib

/usr/local/lib/libreadline.a

and all contain the required symbol

exept /usr/lib/libreadline.dylib

I tried adding paths to other libraries in

the linker flags:

LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -L/sw/lib"

but it still tries to link to wrong version.

As a workaround I tried to move

/usr/lib/libreadline.dylib to

a different position and configure goes fine,

but what would happen if I put it back in place

after compiling?

Thanks a lot in advance for any help,

Carlo.

P.S. To let make work in the documentation

directory I had to patch the makefile (a missing semicolon)

but I don't know if I should submit this as a bug

as I didn't use the CVS version.

Marius

--

Marius Schamschula                               Webmaster

        The Huntsville Macintosh Users Group

                    www.hmug.org

webmaster at hmug dot org    marius at schamschula dot com