Compiling python 2.2 with history command line support

[Andrew MacIntyre]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Gerhard [iso-8859-15] Häring wrote:

> Le 09/01/02 à 19:31, Andrew MacIntyre écrivit:
> > On 8 Jan 2002, Chris Reay wrote:
> >
> > > > I compiled python 2.2 on a debian 2.2 (too) with the curses support but the
> > > > command line mode has no advanced edition support (history...)
> > > > What did I miss ?
> > >
> > > You need to download the libreadline (and libreadline_dev?) packages.
> > > apt-get install or dselect; you know the drill. Then rebuild python,
> > > of course.
> >
> > Why do you need to rebuild Python?  Last time I looked the readline
> > module works fine as a loadable module, and if available is autoloaded.
>
> Because the readline module won't be built if the readline headers
> aren't available at compile time. The same is true for most other
> modules in the Python source tree (can't fint headers -> won't compile).

Hmmm...  I thought that the Distutils solved this, so that you could
install the readline stuff, then re-run the setup.py script that builds
the extensions.  Still can't see why you need to rebuild Python,
especially as the original poster actually built from source, unless the
Debian port maintainer changes things.

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