Re: Installing Octave 2.9.9 on a Mac

[Julian Christopher Schnidder]

> 2. Compiling from sources.
> I downloaded the sources from ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/
> bleeding-edge/octave-2.9.9.tar.gz and tried to install it according
> to the instructions in INSTALL:
>
> Pizza:~/Desktop/octave-2.9.9 mbrennwa$ ./configure
> ....lots of stuff here....
> 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

I experienced the same with readline installed from source with
prefix  /usr/local. To solve this issue set CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS,
e.g.

./configure --enable-bounds-check --enable-shared
--with-f77=/usr/local/g95-inst
all/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin6.8-g95 CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include/"
LDFLAGS="-L
/usr/local/lib/" LIBS="-lcamd"

Hope, that helps.

  Julian Schnidder