[Techtalk] Trying to get octave to compile.

[John Clarke]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 08:14:09 +1100, Sue Stones wrote:

Hi Sue,

> oct-rl-edit.c: In function `octave_rl_prompt_start_ignore':
> oct-rl-edit.c:268: `RL_PROMPT_START_IGNORE' undeclared (first use in this 
> function)
> oct-rl-edit.c: In function `octave_rl_prompt_end_ignore':
> oct-rl-edit.c:274: `RL_PROMPT_END_IGNORE' undeclared (first use in this 
> function)

These two should be defined in readline.h:

    [johnc at dropbear ~]$ egrep -w 'RL_PROMPT_(START|END)_IGNORE' /usr/include/readline/*.h
    /usr/include/readline/readline.h:#define RL_PROMPT_START_IGNORE '\001'
    /usr/include/readline/readline.h:#define RL_PROMPT_END_IGNORE   '\002'

Does oct-rl-edit.c include readline.h, and if so, and if you have
multiple copies of readline.h, do they all define these symbols?

> oct-rl-edit.c: In function `octave_rl_set_terminal_name':
> oct-rl-edit.c:286: `rl_terminal_name' undeclared (first use in this function)

That symbol should be in libreadline.so:

    [johnc at dropbear ~]$ nm /usr/lib/libreadline.so|grep -w rl_terminal_name
    00021064 D rl_terminal_name

Is it linking with libreadline.so?  Check the linker command line - it
should include '-lreadline'.

I have readline-4.2a:

    [johnc at dropbear ~]$ rpm -q readline readline-devel
    readline-4.2a-4
    readline-devel-4.2a-4

Things may be slightly different in 4.3 (which, IIRC, is the version you
installed), but they shouldn't be that different.


Cheers,

John
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