Re: 2.9.4 on mac OSX tiger

[Joe Koski]

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.

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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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