Re: octaveforge, history not working

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 09:48:27PM -0700, Joe Koski wrote:
> For the record, I had the identical experience (and error messages) with
> octave-2.1.50 a few days ago after I installed octave-forge on my Mac under
> OS X 10.2.8. My history also stopped working.

This is probably the most FAQ of all FAQs. One needs readline support at
compile time. 

At the end of 'configure', octave shows a helpful summary (this one came
from when I built the Debian package of 2.1.52):

  Octave is now configured for i386-pc-linux-gnu
  
    Source directory:     .
    Installation prefix:  /usr
    C compiler:           /usr/bin/gcc  -mieee-fp  -Wall -W -Wshadow -g -O2
    C++ compiler:         /usr/bin/g++  -mieee-fp  -Wall -W -Wshadow -g -O2
    Fortran compiler:     /usr/bin/g77 -O
    Fortran libraries:     -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.2 
-L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.2/../../.. -lfrtbegin -lg2c -lm -lgcc_s
    BLAS libraries:       /usr/lib/liblapack2.so /usr/lib/libblas2.so
    FFTW libraries:       -lfftw
    HDF5 libraries:       
    MPI libraries:        
    LIBS:                 -lreadline  -lncurses -ldl -lm 
    Default pager:        less
    gnuplot:              gnuplot
              
    Do internal array bounds checking:  false
    Build static libraries:             false
    Build shared libraries:             true
    Dynamic Linking:                    true (dlopen)
    Include support for GNU readline:   true
                        
Unless it shows '-lreadline' under LIBS and 'support for GNU readline', you
probably won't get command-line history support.

Dirk

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