[Pythonmac-SIG] mac and readline

[Dan Wolfe]

On 10.2, there's a later ncurses lib added which mucks up the readline 
4.3 build.  I haven't had time to figure it out yet. Not all is lost, 
however, as v4.2 still works like a charm.

Here's the recipe to get you going:

Installed readline-4.2.tar.gz
     - ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/readline/readline-4.2.tar.gz
     - gnutar -xvzf readline-4.2.tar.gz
     - cd readline-4.2
     - ./configure
     - make clean
     - make
     - sudo make install
     - sudo mv /usr/local/man/man3/* /usr/share/man/man3/

Note: you'll need to build and install readline before building python 
2.2.1. The pre-installed 2.2 version does not have readline support.

- Dan

On Tuesday, September 3, 2002, at 09:36  PM, Calvin wrote:

> Any idea how to get readline working on mac os x 10.2?  I rebuilt from
> sources.  I didn't get _socket so I copied it over from the default
> install, but I still couldn't get readline working.
>
> It is so very useful. Is there anything special I need to do?  I just 
> did
> a vanilla build.