Re: readline on Mac problems again

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

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 19:52, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> On Sunday 29 March 2009, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I have reinstalled my MacOS X 10.5 from scratch. After trying to build
>> > gnuplot I get the following error reports
>
> As of recently, gnuplot allows a 3rd option for line input.
> You can configure it to use the NetBSD editline library
>        ./configure --with-readline=bsd
>
> But there is still a missing piece.
> The MacOS so-called "readline" library is really  a wrapper for the BSD editline
> library.  So gnuplot _could_ use it if it were named correctly.  But since it
> calls itself "readline" rather than "editline" we cannot detect it automatically.
> I imagine this MacOS craziness could be detected and worked around by the
> gnuplot configuration script, but no one has yet contributed a modified script
> to handle it.

The --with-readline=bsd works nicely. One question: what advantages
does the true GNU readline have over editline? If there are no big
differences, maybe something like "if this is mac, use
--with-readline=bsd by default" would work?

(I can imagine people having gnu readline installed, but they could
invoke it with --with-readline=gnu, at least until someone figures out
how to figure out which library is being used.)

Thanks,
    Mojca