Re: octave_hist

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 10:19:13AM -0400, Ada Cheng wrote:
> I did an ldconfig -r which results in the following revelant lines:
> 86:-lreadline.4 => /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4
> 101:-lreadline.3 => /usr/lib/compat/libreadline.so.3
> 349:-lreadline.4 => /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so.4
> 
> libreadline.so.4 are identical in both /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib

You also need header files to compile.  Your test is not a sufficient one.

> When I compile octave from /usr/ports/math/octave I obtain no error so I
> guess I am unsure why did it not find the readline library.

Look at the output of configure when it is finished. It clearly states
whether readline was found or not.

Dirk

> Thanks.
> Ada
> 
> 
> 
> >From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue Oct  7
> >21:40:23 2003
> >Subject: Re: octave_hist
> >From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian dot org>
> >To: Ada Cheng <acheng at member dot ams dot org>
> >Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
> >Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 21:40:15 -0500
> 
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 01:18:43PM -0400, Ada Cheng wrote:
> > Good afternoon,
> >       I recently upgraded from octave 2.1.40 to octave 2.1.50.  However
> > octave have stop reading or writing from .octave_hist.  The arrow key
> will
> > no longer go to previous commands nor will CTRL-l clear the screen.
> 
> This indicates that the readline library was not found during the call to
> configure. You may need a -dev version installed to the the headers.
> 
> > I am running FreeBSD 4.8. Thanks.
> 
> That should have a matching readline library.
> 
> Dirk
> 
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