From bug-request at octave dot org Tue Jan 25 13:32:51 2005
Subject: Re: Serious memory leak in octave (this may be a duplicate bug 	report)
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Dan Nessett <dnessett at comcast dot net>
Cc: Per Persson <persquare at mac dot com>, Martin Costabel <costabel@wanadoo.fr>,         <bug@octave.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:34:03 -0500

On 25-Jan-2005, Dan Nessett <dnessett at comcast dot net> wrote:

| I can't seem to find the right combination of configure options to get a
| full version of octave built with libncurses coming from /usr/lib. I have
| tried:
| 
| ./configure --enable-shared --enable-dl --disable-static
| LDFLAGS="/usr/lib/libncurses.5.dylib /sw/lib/libreadline.4.dylib
| /sw/lib/libhdf5.0.dylib" FLIBS=/sw/lib/libg2c.a
| 
| ./configure --enable-shared --enable-dl --disable-static
| LDFLAGS="/usr/lib/libncurses.5.dylib /sw/lib/libreadline.4.dylib
| /sw/lib/libhdf5.0.dylib -I/sw/include/readline.h" FLIBS=/sw/lib/libg2c.a
| 
| and
| 
| ./configure --enable-shared --enable-dl --disable-static
| LDFLAGS="/usr/lib/libncurses.5.dylib /sw/lib/libreadline.a
| /sw/lib/libhdf5.0.dylib -I/sw/include/readline.h" FLIBS=/sw/lib/libg2c.a
| 
| All of these result in the following error during the configure phase:
| 
| 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
| 
| I would like to have a full workaround before I report the bug to Fink. Any
| suggestions?

You should look in config.log to see why the readline check is
failing.  My guess is that some function is not defined or declared
properly.  Another guess is that -I/sw/include/readline.h is not
right.  First, a -I option doesn't make much sense in LDFLAGS, and
second, the directory name looks wrong (I would expect
/sw/include/readline, not /sw/include/readline.h).

jwe



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