From help-request at octave dot org Sun Jan 22 15:49:29 2006 Subject: Re: 2.9.4 on mac OSX tiger From: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" To: Marius Schamschula , help-octave@octave.org Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:47:42 -0700 Since the liboct library (and/or) octave executable will contain the readline library, there is no need for the dynamic linker to try to load a dynamic library. Dmitri. Marius Schamschula wrote: > Dmitri, > > True, but why? How does this help me in not picking up Apple's > /usr/lib/readline.dylib? > > I have a proper readline.5.dylib installed in /usr/local/lib, so why > should I use readline.a? > > On Jan 22, 2006, at 2:10 PM, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote: > >> >> Marius Schamschula wrote: >> >>> Dmitri, >>> Option? You can't build octave-forge if octave is built statically. >>> The problem is simply how not to link against Apple's BSD readline... >> >> >> One should be able to build a shared liboctave, yet link in >> a static libreadline.a. >> E.g. on my linux, octave has ATLAS linked in statically, yet >> I built a shared liboctave... >> >> Dmitri. >> -- > > > Marius > > -- > > Marius Schamschula, Alabama A & M University, Department of Physics > > > The Center for Hydrology Soil Climatology and Remote Sensing > > http://optics.physics.aamu.edu/ - http://www.physics.aamu.edu/ > > http://wx.aamu.edu/ - http://www.aamu.edu/hscars/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------