[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-474831 ] Command history doesn't work on Mandrake (original) (raw)

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Bugs item #474831, was opened at 2001-10-25 04:15 You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=474831&group_id=5470

Category: Python Interpreter Core Group: Not a Bug Status: Closed Resolution: Invalid Priority: 5 Submitted By: peter nordlund (qnorpet) Assigned to: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum) Summary: Command history doesn't work on Mandrake

Initial Comment: When I build version 2.2b1 and 2.2a4 on my Linux Mandrake 8.1 pc the command history doesn't work. The python that is included in Mandrake 8.1 works ok in that regard. I can't use arrow keys or ctrl-p to go backwards. No ctrl- or arrow key-strokes seems to work.

When I build 2.2a4 for Solaris it works ok.

I have Swedish keyboards, in case that could matter.

Best regards, Peter Nordlund

Comment By: peter nordlund (qnorpet) Date: 2001-10-26 03:52

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Ok, before I saw montanaros suggestion I built readline4.2 (I think it was) with --with-termcap, and edited Setup as follows: readline readline.c -I/work1/pkg/utils/readline/4.2/include -L/work1/pkg/utils/readline/4.2/lib -L/lib -lreadline - ltermcap I think I also had mo make a symlink from /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8 to /lib/termcap.so

I could be wrong in some details, since I'm not sitting right at the Linux-box right now.

Then it worked as it should!!!

I will try monataros suggestion and will report back after the weekend.

Comment By: Skip Montanaro (montanaro) Date: 2001-10-25 08:15

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Actually, you may well have the readline RPM installed, but not the readline-devel RPM. To compile programs that include support for a given package, you need to install the "-devel" RPM, which includes the various .h files needed to compile the program. Python's setup.py script is probably looking for, but not finding /usr/include/readline/readline.h.

Skip

Comment By: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum) Date: 2001-10-25 05:56

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You probably don't have the GNU readline library installed in a place where Python looks for it. Download its source from a GNU site and build and install it.

(If you do have GNU readline installed, it would be interesting to find out why setup.py doesn't find it and/or why it doesn't build the readline extension module.)

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