Re: parigp on a macintel core duo

["Justin C. Walker" <justin@mac.com>]

On Apr 6, 2006, at 9:37 AM, Bill Allombert wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 09:40:17PM -0800, Justin C. Walker wrote:
> > I have a version that I built myself, with GMP:
> >          GP/PARI CALCULATOR Version 2.2.13 (development  
> > CHANGES-1.1500)
> >            i386 running darwin (ix86/GMP-4.1.4 kernel) 32-bit version
> >        compiled: Mar  9 2006, gcc-4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build
> > 5250)
> >                 (readline v5.1 enabled, extended help available)
> >
> > Note this version "knows" it is on an ix86 processor, and uses GMP.
>
> Could you confirm Readline support was working "out of the box" ?
>
> It does not on Mac OS 10.4 on PPC (if I remember correctly the  
> version).

The short answer: it does not.

The slightly-longer answer: Apple still has the abomination  
"libreadline -> libedit" symlink in place on the Intel version of Mac  
OS X 10.4.

I habitually fix this by removing/renaming the symlink for the  
library; the include file(s) I leave untouched, as they do not appear  
to cause problems.  With this change, the GNU readline package works  
just fine (from /usr/local, in my case).

Regards,

Justin

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