Re: Problem regarding building octave

[Richard Crozier]

On 08/01/18 12:28, Vaibhav Mathur wrote:
> hi everyone,
> I am Vaibhav and I am an undergrad 3rd year student in 
> BITS-Pilani,India.I wish to contribute to the organisation but currently 
> I am facing problem building gnu Octave ver-4.2.1 on my Mac OS -X 
> 10.12.i have installed readline-7.2.0 but on configuring octave using 
> command
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared
>
> I am getting the following error:-
>
> configure: WARNING: I need GNU Readline 4.2 or later
>
> configure: error: this is fatal unless you specify --disable-readline
>
> It would be great if you could help me out with this problem.i went 
> through the mailing list archive for similar problem
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-octave/2007-07/msg00078.html
>
> but the error persists.i also tried removing the existing directories of 
> readline and installing readline 7.2.0 again

Hi,

Maybe it's a silly question, but have you installed GNU Readline?

Richard



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