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3 messages · Tino Reinhardt, Thomas Lumley, Peter Dalgaard

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Tino Reinhardt
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hello,
I've had compiled Version 0.90.1  (December 15, 1999) on an i586
running GNU/Linux (RedHat 5.2-patched with 6.* pieces) last night.
Everything seems to work fine but it's impossible to use command-line
editing (on the linuxconsole, xterm, rxvt). It just looks like
after pressing arrow-up, left or right

On the console i've got	$ echo $TERM linux-lat
an in X			$ echo $TERM	xterm

Did I forgot something whilst compiling? More info needed?
Thanks for any help. Tino
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Thomas Lumley
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On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Tino Reinhardt wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
You probably don't have GNU readline or its header files installed.

If you have the library (libreadline.so) then look
in config.cache for the lines
 ac_cv_header_readline_history_h=${ac_cv_header_readline_history_h=yes}
 ac_cv_header_readline_readline_h=${ac_cv_header_readline_readline_h=yes}
or
 ac_cv_header_readline_history_h=${ac_cv_header_readline_history_h=no}
 ac_cv_header_readline_readline_h=${ac_cv_header_readline_readline_h=no}

If you have the =no version then ./configure couldn't find the headers, so
you probably need to install them. They should be on the Red Hat
distribution.

	-thomas

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      Peter Dalgaard
    

    

      
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Thomas Lumley <thomas at biostat.washington.edu> writes:

            

      
      
      
    

        
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Somewhere in the back of my mind sits a recollection that there's a
version problem, that we require a newer readline than shipped in
RH5.2. In redhat 6.1 we have 2.2.1 and that works but I suspect 2.0
will not do the callback method we use in the console handler.

Also note that you need the readline-devel package as well as the
library itself.