Re: Octave installation problem

[Alexander Barth]

Hi Jan,

I installed Octave 2.9.9 on a Suse 10.0 machine without problems. Your error 
message is suspicious
because configure looks for the readline libraries in /usr/local/lib instead of 
/usr/lib.

Are you sure that you have installed the system readline libraries? Can you 
send us the output of:
rpm -q readline-devel
rpm -ql readline-devel

If readline-devel is indeed installed, you can try to move 
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so out of the
way, to make sure that configure picks the library in /usr/lib.

Cheers,

Alex

Jan Vervoorst wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to install Octave 2.9.9 on a Suse Linux 10.1 machine. I get an 
> almost identical error message as the one posted in this earlier thread: 
> http://velveeta.che.wisc.edu/octave/lists/archive//help-octave.2006/msg01010.html
> 
> 
>> configure:25031: result: no
>> configure:25050: WARNING: I couldn't find -ltermcap, -lterminfo, 
>> -lncurses, -lcurses, or -ltermlib!
>> configure:25066: checking for rl_set_keyboard_input_timeout in -lreadline
>> configure:25104: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c -lreadline  -ldl 
>> -lm  >&5
>> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetnum'
>> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgoto'
>> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetflag'
>> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `BC'
>> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tputs'
>> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `PC'
>> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetent'
>> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `UP'
>> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetstr'
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> configure:25110: $? = 1
>> configure: failed program was:
>> | /* confdefs.h.  */
> 
> 
> Octave warns that it can't find Readline, even though it is installed on my 
> system. I read the previous responses but that didn't solve my problem. The 
> Readline development libraries that came with Suse 10.1 are installed, so 
> what else could be the problem?
> Thanks for your help, Jan


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