Re: Compiling Octave from sources: readline...

[Matthias Brennwald]

David Bateman wrote:
> Matthias Brennwald wrote:
> > Dear all
> >
> > I'd like to compile the current Octave sources from CVS on Linux (Debian
> > 4.0 Etch stable on an Dell Laptop). I called ./autogen.sh to create the
> > configure script, which worked fine. I then called ./configure, which gave
> > the follwoing error:
> >
> > configure: WARNING: I couldn't find -ltermcap, -lterminfo, -lncurses,
> > -lcurses, or -ltermlib!
> > 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
> >
> > apt-get tells me that I have the newest version of libreadline:
> > sudo apt-get install libreadline5
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree... Done
> > libreadline5 is already the newest version.
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> >
> > Any ideas or hints on how to solve this readline problem?
> >
> > Matthias
> >   
> try "apt-get install libreadline5-devel" etc... That will give you the
> headers that are needed if you want to compile something against these
> libraries..

Thanks, that did the trick. There was only one minor glitch: During make 
and make install, the process stopped, I hit enter, and it continued. I 
believe the problem occurred during typesetting the documentation (the 
output looked a bit like LaTeX to me, but I'm not sure).

Thanks
Matthias