Elim Qiu on Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:21:46 +0100


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Re: Fix readline for PARI?


Thanks a lot Bill, got readline fixed.

Agree with you. The Apple/NexTSTEP golden age was gone.



On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Bill Allombert
<Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:27:07AM -0700, Elim Qiu wrote:
>> I installed PARI on my mac snow leopard. But with no readline support:
>>
>>  GP/PARI CALCULATOR Version 2.5.3 (released)
>>           i386 running darwin (x86-64/GMP-5.1.0 kernel) 64-bit version
>>             compiled: Jan 12 2013, gcc-4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)
>>                (readline not compiled in, extended help enabled)
>>
>> I checked the output of configure script, it says
>>
>> Hi-Res Graphics: X11
>> ...Found libreadline in /usr/lib/
>> ...Found readline header in /usr/include//readline
>> ...Found history header in /usr/include//readline
>> ...Found libncurses in /usr/lib/
>> ...Library ncurses needed by readline
>> ###
>> ### Editline wrapper detected, building without readline support
>> ###
>> ### Building without GNU readline support
>>
>>
>> What should I do to compile readline into PARI?
>
> Read the FAQ:
> <http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/faq.html#mac10readline>
> Basically Apple has found entertaining to include a library libreadline that is
> not libreadline.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill.
>