Re: readline problems on OSX

[Ethan A M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Sunday 28 January 2007 11:36, Per Persson wrote:
> 
> On Jan 25, 2007, at 22:09, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday 25 January 2007 12:52, Per Persson wrote:
> 
> I've put a patch (#1646558) which makes configure look for  
> _remove_history rather than _readline.
> This works on OS X 10.4.x, but newer versions of libedit seems to  
> have that symbol, so this is likely not a future-proof test.
 
I have no way to test your fix, other than to confirm that ./configure
under linux can still successfully find gnu libreadline after
applying the patch.  

> Let me know if you think I should commit it to CVS.

You'll have to make that call yourself, or ask other  OSX users for
opinions.  It sounds better than the current ./configure behaviour
on OSX.  But remember that gnuplot releases seem to stick around for
several years, so looking ahead to likely compatibility with future
OS versions is a good idea.  

-- 
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742