Re: readline on Mac problems again

[Dmitri A. S. <das...@gm...>]

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Mojca Miklavec
<moj...@gm...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have reinstalled my MacOS X 10.5 from scratch. After trying to build
> gnuplot I get the following error reports (the repository is from
> 3.3.2009; I'll upgrade to the latest version asap).
>
> I almost urgently need a working version of self-compiled gnuplot, so
> I might install the needed packages in the meantime, but I can provide
> some more feedback if needed (under assumption that it won't start
> working out-of-the-box in the meantime after I start installing
> additional packages).
>
> Mojca
>
> g++  -g -O2   -o gnuplot alloc.o axis.o binary.o breaders.o bitmap.o
> color.o command.o contour.o datafile.o dynarray.o eval.o fit.o
> gadgets.o getcolor.o graph3d.o graphics.o help.o hidden3d.o history.o
> internal.o interpol.o matrix.o misc.o mouse.o parse.o plot.o plot2d.o
> plot3d.o pm3d.o readline.o save.o scanner.o set.o show.o specfun.o
> standard.o stdfn.o tables.o tabulate.o term.o time.o unset.o util.o
> util3d.o variable.o version.o   -lreadline  -lncurses  -lz
> Undefined symbols:
>  "_rl_forced_update_display", referenced from:
>      _restore_prompt in command.o
>  "_rl_ding", referenced from:
>      _alert in mouse.o
>  "_history_list", referenced from:
>      _write_history_list in history.o
>  "_rl_complete_with_tilde_expansion", referenced from:
>      _rl_complete_with_tilde_expansion$non_lazy_ptr in plot.o
>  "_rl_reset_after_signal", referenced from:
>      _main in plot.o
> ld: symbol(s) not found
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[3]: *** [gnuplot] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2


This looks to me as usual MaCOS problem with its readline not being
real readline. There are few ways to solve it, perhaps the simplest is to pass
"-with-readline=no" to configure.

Sincerely,
Dmitri.
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