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Re: Compiling Octave from sources: readline...


From: David Bateman
Subject: Re: Compiling Octave from sources: readline...
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:14:01 +0200
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Matthias Brennwald wrote:
> Dear all
>
> I'd like to compile the current Octave sources from CVS on Linux (Debian
> 4.0 Etch stable on an Dell Laptop). I called ./autogen.sh to create the
> configure script, which worked fine. I then called ./configure, which gave
> the follwoing error:
>
> configure: WARNING: I couldn't find -ltermcap, -lterminfo, -lncurses,
> -lcurses, or -ltermlib!
> 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
>
> apt-get tells me that I have the newest version of libreadline:
> sudo apt-get install libreadline5
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> libreadline5 is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>
> Any ideas or hints on how to solve this readline problem?
>
> Matthias
>   
try "apt-get install libreadline5-devel" etc... That will give you the
headers that are needed if you want to compile something against these
libraries..

D.

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