Re: octave-3.0.3: Readline version mismatch

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Stéphane Bigler
<address@hidden> wrote:
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> Hi,
> I use fedora 9 and try to install octave 3.0.3. I am faced to a
> Readline version problem. Please consider the following:
>
> After downloading and untaring octave-3.0.3.tar.gz file, I
> typed : ./configure and get the following informations message:
>
> ..
> ...
> ....
> checking for tputs in -ltermlib... no
> 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
> address@hidden octave-3.0.3]#
>
> So I checked the readline version installed on my pc with :
>
> address@hidden sbigler]# yum install readline
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> Setting up Install Process
> Parsing package install arguments
> Package readline-5.2-13.fc9.i386 already installed and latest version
> Nothing to do
>

For development, you will probably need something like readline-devel
or similar package, containing header files.

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RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
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Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
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