site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) Many GNU packages rely on libreadline. Fink has a patch line -- Martin _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... Bill Northcott wrote: It seems that in Darwin there is a BSD libedit, which is symlinked as libreadline and has a corresponding readline.h. This breaks Octave and probably other builds. Yes, this is annoying, but it fits into the pattern of Apple first putting a broken version of a new open source package into OSX (there are quite a few historical examples for this). A correct version can probably be expected for the OSX release "Sabre-tooth cat" :-) If the GNU readline is installed in /usr/local, is there a preferred way to ensure that configure scripts pick it up? perl -pi -e 's|LIBREADLINE=\"-lreadline|LIBREADLINE=\"-L%p/lib -lreadline|g' mkoctfile in its octave package description for Tiger. Replace %p by /usr/local in your case. Actually by default /usr/local/lib should be searched before /usr/lib and /usr/local/include before /usr/include, so this shouldn't even be necessary in your case. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com