Re: Installation of 2.9.12 - readline problem?

[Vic Norton]

Thanks for your advice Thomas, but I guess I'll just forget about  
Octave 2.9.12 for the time being. I now have readline installed up  
the proverbial ying-yang. I have installed it once via macports and  
at least once directly. I've got
   \usr\local\lib\libreadline.5.2.dylib
and
   \opt\local\lib\libreadline.5.0.dylib
None of this makes any difference. When I try to ./configure  
Octave-2.9.12, I always end up with the same message
   checking for rl_set_keyboard_input_timeout in -lreadline... no
   configure: WARNING: I need GNU Readline 4.2 or later
   configure: error: this is fatal unless you specify --disable- 
readline

Life is too short. Im going to stick with Octave 2.9.9. That works  
for me.

Regards,

Vic

On Jul 9, 2007, at 5:50 PM, Vic Norton wrote:

> I am currently running Octave 2.9.9 from High Perfomance Computing
> <http://hpc.sourceforge.net/> on Mac OSX 10.4.10. It works perfectly.
>
> I thought of trying to install Octave 2.9.12 (but not "Octave.app").
> The end of my "./configure" output reads
>     checking for rl_set_keyboard_input_timeout in -lreadline... no
>     configure: WARNING: I need GNU Readline 4.2 or later
>     configure: error: this is fatal unless you specify
>     --disable-readline


On Jul 9, 2007, at 6:18 PM, Thomas Treichl wrote:
> Vic Norton schrieb:
> > What am I missing?
>
> Vic,
>
> the GNU readline that comes with your Mac wasn't designed to be  
> real GNU. You need to download a GNU readline, compile this and  
> install it somewhere else (not in /usr where your Mac readline is  
> installed)...
>
> Thomas