building Python: up arrow broken on SuSE Linux 8.2

[Peter Otten]

Erik Johnson wrote:

> the Apple Python distribution the OP was asking about.  I now notice this
> in the output of configure:
> 
> checking for rl_pre_input_hook in -lreadline... no
> checking for rl_completion_matches in -lreadline... no
> 
> 
> My system has /lib/libreadline.so.4.3.   I guess it does not define
> these newer functions and so that is why the readline module was not
> configured in Setup to start with? That is the presumption I am working
> on.

Have you ensured (with yast) that readline-devel is actually installed?

Peter