From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Jan 17 22:34:16 2002
Subject: Re: relocation error; undefined symbol: screenheight
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian dot org>
To: Martin Swift <martin at swift dot st>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:33:54 -0600

On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 03:59:19AM +0000, Martin Swift wrote:
>   * When trying to start Octave I get the error message
>           relocation error: /usr/lib/octave-2.0.16/liboctave.so: undefined symbol: screenheight
> 
> Any comments on what exactly the problem is, and how to fix it are greatly appreciated.

That caused by a change in the readline libraries, IIRC from 4.1 to 4.2.

As I see that you are running Debian, did you recently upgrade any of the
libreadline packages? 

Dirk

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