Re: [Chicken-users] Compiling readline.egg on Mac OS X 10.4.10

[Ozzi]

Do you know if I will cause problems if I just change that symlink to point to a 
macports-installed version of libreadline? Is there a better approach?

Thanks for the help,

Ozzi

Kon Lovett wrote:
> On Oct 3, 2007, at 10:55 AM, Ozzi wrote:
>
> > I have installed the latest version of Chicken from SVN. When I run:
> >
> > sudo chicken-setup readline
> >
> > I get the following response:
> >
> > Password:
> >
> > The extension readline does not exist.
> > Do you want to download it ? (yes/no/abort) [yes] yes
> > downloading readline.egg from (www.call-with-current-continuation.org 
> > eggs 80)
> >   gzip -d -c ../readline.egg | tar xf -
> >   /usr/local/bin/csc -feature compiling-extension -s -O2 -d0 
> > readline.scm -L -lreadline -emit-exports readline.exports -L -ltermcap
> > readline.c: In function 'gnu_readline_init':
> > readline.c:221: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
> > /usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
> > _history_truncate_file
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > *** Shell command terminated with exit status 1: gcc readline.o -o 
> > readline.so -bundle -L/usr/local/lib -lreadline -ltermcap -lm -lchicken
> > Error: shell invocation failed with non-zero return status
> > "/usr/local/bin/csc -feature compiling-extension -s -O2 -d0 
> > readline.scm -L -lr...
> > 256
> >
> > Is it possible I have something messed up locally, or is this a bug in 
> > the readline egg?
>
> Apple symlinked /usr/lib/libreadline.dylib -> libedit.dylib, which is 
> NOT readline. You must get a real readline. Maybe fink or macports. I 
> just compiled it myself.
>
> HTH,
> Kon
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> Best Wishes,
> Kon