Re: How to disable some terminals?

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
>
>> The MacOS libreadline is apparently not powerful enough, so it
>> wouldn't help. (But it would be nice to detect that deficiency and
>> switch to built-in readline during configuration step instead of
>> throwing an error.)
>
> If you can figure out how to detect and configure around the OSX
> defective readline library, that would be great.  So far, I have not
> seen a way to do this.  It claims to be readline, but it isn't.

How do you detect the standard libreadline?

>> The built-in readline would be fine, but suboptimal (I've seen the
>> switch that forces usage of built-in readline.)
>
> I have been told that the OSX "libreadline" library is actually a disguised
> version of the BSD libedit.  Since as of recently gnuplot can use libedit
> instead of libreadline, the best solution would be (if it works) would be
> to force the --with-readline=bsd on OSX configurations.  Unfortunately,
> I do not know if OSX also provides an un-wrapped libedit that doesn't
> pretend to be libreadline.  Could you please try
>  ./configure --with-readline=bsd
> and see how it works?

It doesn't.

Making all in wxterminal
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..  -I../term -I../term
-DBINDIR=\"/Users/mojca/moje/dev/gnuplot/git/gnuplot-static/support_libs/bin\"
-DX11_DRIVER_DIR=\"/Users/mojca/moje/dev/gnuplot/git/gnuplot-static/support_libs/libexec/gnuplot/4.3\"
-DGNUPLOT_PS_DIR=\"/Users/mojca/moje/dev/gnuplot/git/gnuplot-static/support_libs/share/gnuplot/4.3/PostScript\"
-DCONTACT=\"gnu...@li...\"
-DHELPFILE=\"/Users/mojca/moje/dev/gnuplot/git/gnuplot-static/support_libs/share/gnuplot/4.3/gnuplot.gih\"
-DGNUPLOT_X11=\"`echo gnuplot_x11 | sed 's,x,x,'`\"
-I/Users/mojca/moje/dev/gnuplot/git/gnuplot-static/support_libs/include
-I/Users/mojca/moje/dev/gnuplot/git/gnuplot-static/support_libs/include
 -g -O2 -ObjC -MT command.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/command.Tpo" -c -o
command.o command.c; \
then mv -f ".deps/command.Tpo" ".deps/command.Po"; else rm -f
".deps/command.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
In file included from command.c:76:
gp_hist.h:73:32: error: editline/readline.h: No such file or directory
command.c: In function 'rlgets':
command.c:2427: error: invalid type argument of '->'
make[3]: *** [command.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

There are the following files (not sure about the first two, but the
last four are from Mac OS X Developer tools that need to be installed
in order to be able to compile anything).

/usr/lib/libedit.2.dylib
/usr/lib/libedit.dylib
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.3.9.sdk/usr/lib/libedit.2.dylib
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.3.9.sdk/usr/lib/libedit.dylib
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/lib/libedit.2.dylib
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/lib/libedit.dylib

But I only have
    /sw/include/editline/readline.h
and /sw doesn't cound into standard libraries (that's fink).

There's also
    /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/include/readline/readline.h
but that path is not included when building gnuplot.

Mojca