From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sat Dec 13 23:45:15 2003 Subject: Re: octaveforge, history not working From: Dirk Eddelbuettel To: Joe Koski Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 23:44:42 -0600 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 -- Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. -- Groucho Marx ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------