building Python: up arrow broken on SuSE Linux 8.2

[Erik Johnson]

"Erik Johnson" <spam at nospam.org> wrote in message
news:41f85dd8 at nntp.zianet.com...
>     So I downloaded & built libreadline version 5.0.  I have libreadline.a
> and shlib/libreadline.so.5.0 files. Having done Python & other scripting
> languages for a while, I have sort of forgotten all the ugly details about
C
> compilation. I'm trying to figure out how to get Python2.3.4. statically
> linked with the .a file and not muck with the system shared libraries and
> let other applications fend for themselves. Any advice on how to
statically
> link in this library so the Python build is happy?

What I thought might be obvious and easy does not work, BTW...
In the Modules/Setup file I put this...

readline
readline.c -I/home/ej/readline-5.0 -L/home/ej/readline-5.0 -lreadline

re-ran configure and tried the make again. No joy. :(
Now I remember why I ended up using things like Perl & Python in the first
place...


ej at sand:~/Python-2.3.4> make
gcc -pthread -c -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototyp
es -I. -I./Include  -DPy_BUILD_CORE -o Modules/config.o Modules/config.c
gcc -pthread -c -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototyp
es -I. -I./Include  -DPy_BUILD_CORE -DPYTHONPATH='":plat-linux2:lib-tk"' \
        -DPREFIX='"/usr/local"' \
        -DEXEC_PREFIX='"/usr/local"' \
        -DVERSION='"2.3"' \
        -DVPATH='""' \
        -o Modules/getpath.o ./Modules/getpath.c
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes 
-I. -I./Include  -DPy_BUILD_CORE  -I/home/ej/readline-5.0 -c
./Modules/readline.c -o Modules/readline.o
Modules/readline.c:26:31: readline/readline.h: No such file or directory
Modules/readline.c:27:30: readline/history.h: No such file or directory
Modules/readline.c: In function `parse_and_bind':
Modules/readline.c:49: warning: implicit declaration of function
`rl_parse_and_bind'
Modules/readline.c: In function `read_init_file':
Modules/readline.c:68: warning: implicit declaration of function
`rl_read_init_file'
Modules/readline.c: In function `read_history_file':
Modules/readline.c:89: warning: implicit declaration of function
`read_history'
Modules/readline.c: In function `write_history_file':
Modules/readline.c:111: warning: implicit declaration of function
`write_history'
Modules/readline.c:113: warning: implicit declaration of function
`history_truncate_file'
Modules/readline.c: In function `set_completer_delims':
Modules/readline.c:287: error: `rl_completer_word_break_characters'
undeclared (first use in this function)
Modules/readline.c:287: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only
once
Modules/readline.c:287: error: for each function it appears in.)