From help-request at octave dot org Wed Jun 16 10:22:24 2004
Subject: Problem on Suse 9.0
From: Ajay Singh <ajay at plasma dot usask dot ca>
To: <help at octave dot org>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:29:46 -0600 (CST)

I am trying to build octave 2.1.47 on Suse 9.0
It builds and runs fine with -disable--readline.
However if I want readline enabled then it comes with following message. I
have readline 4.3 installed in /usr/local/readline directory.
Ajay

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checking for tputs in -lncurses... no
checking for tputs in -lcurses... no
checking for tputs in -ltermcap... no
checking for tputs in -lterminfo... no
checking for tputs in -ltermlib... no
checking for rl_set_keyboard_input_timeout in -lreadline... no
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






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