Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] Maxima GUIs/emacs troubles! (and commutativity issues)

[James Amundson]

On my RedHat 7.2 system, the gcl 2.5.0 configure script failed to detect
my readline installation because the link failed. It is easy to not
notice that the check has failed -- it's buried in a long set of
messages. The following patch fixed the problem for me:


|addiator>cvs diff configure
Index: configure
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/gcl/gcl/configure,v
retrieving revision 1.11.2.13
diff -r1.11.2.13 configure
1774c1774
< LIBS="-lreadline  $LIBS"
---
> LIBS="-lreadline -lncurses $LIBS"

Unfortunately, I doubt that the fix is general. I don't know why
RedHat's readline depends on ncurses, while other readlines apparently
do not.

--Jim

On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 23:01, Camm Maguire wrote:
> Greetings!  On my gcl 2.5.0 build, tab completion, backspace, Emacs
> keys (i.e. Alt-b to back over a word), and the back arrow all work.
> Are you sure you have a working terminal?  Does bash show the expected
> behavior?  What about gcl directly from the command prompt?
> 
> C Y <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > --- Daniel Lemire <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Good day,
> > > 
> > > Ok, I built both GCL and maxima... seems to work so far. I do have 
> > > backspace... that's nice.
> > > 
> > > Not to be ungrateful or anything, but why can't I get the back arrow 
> > > now? ;-) Right now, if you make a mistake at the beginning of an 
> > > expression, you have delete it all to correct the mistake. This
> > > reminds  me of the good old days... back when 16 KB was a lot of 
> > > memory... ;-) Is it just me or is lisp really backward?
> > 
> > Clisp will allow the back arrow - I'm not really sure why gcl isn't,
> > provided you are using the .  Camm?
> > 
> > > Ok, well things got a bit better... now, I'm just hoping that some of
> > > the bugs I found (should I report computational bugs? what is the
> > > state of maxima??? I suspect some of these bugs are lisp related...?)
> > 
> > Go ahead and report them - whatever the cause, it needs to be
> > identified and fixed.
> > 
> > You can also enter them into the bug tracker at the sourceforge project
> > site - that's probably the best way to make sure they are checked when
> > we get ready to release (whenever that is.)
> > 
> > CY
> > 
> > 
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> Camm Maguire                                          address@hidden
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