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Re: octave_hist
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Dirk Eddelbuettel |
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Re: octave_hist |
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Wed, 8 Oct 2003 12:28:37 -0500 |
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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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