From help-request at octave dot org Sat Jan 21 11:31:46 2006
Subject: Re: 2.9.4 on mac OSX tiger
From: Marius Schamschula <marius173 at mchsi dot com>
To: Carlo de Falco <carlo at mate dot polimi dot it>
Cc: <help at octave dot org>
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 11:29:28 -0600


On Jan 21, 2006, at 10:19 AM, Carlo de Falco wrote:

> I just managed to compile octave 2.9.4
> on my ibook g3 running osx 10.4.4 with the
> configuration options in the attached file
> and it seems to work
> quite fine exept that I couldn't manage
> to link it to libreadline.
> Configure crashes complaining  that
>
> libreadline.dylib does not contain symbol
> _rl_set_keyboard_input_timeout
>
> actually I have many instances of readline:
>
> /sw/lib/libreadline.4.2.dylib
> /sw/lib/libreadline.4.3.dylib
> /sw/lib/libreadline.4.dylib
> /usr/lib/libreadline.dylib
> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.a
>
> and all contain the required symbol
> exept /usr/lib/libreadline.dylib

This is Apple's non-standard version of libreadline. You need to hide  
it from any package that may want to link against it. I.e.:

sudo mv /usr/lib/libreadline.dylib /usr/lib/libreadline.dylib.off

Don't forget to return it to its original name after you are done.

> I tried adding paths to other libraries in
> the linker flags:
>
> LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -L/sw/lib"
>
> but it still tries to link to wrong version.
>
> As a workaround I tried to move
> /usr/lib/libreadline.dylib to
> a different position and configure goes fine,
> but what would happen if I put it back in place
> after compiling?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance for any help,
> Carlo.
>
> P.S. To let make work in the documentation
> directory I had to patch the makefile (a missing semicolon)
> but I don't know if I should submit this as a bug
> as I didn't use the CVS version.



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