[Box Backup-dev] Re: [Box Backup] readline support on OS X

[Johan Allard]

On 19/02/2006, at 12:46 AM, Ben Summers wrote:

>
> On 18 Feb 2006, at 13:38, Martin Ebourne wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 14:31 +1100, Johan Allard wrote:
>>> On 18/02/2006, at 10:58 AM, Martin Ebourne wrote:
>>>> ii) Given that Apple is trying to emulate GNU readline then simply
>>>> giving --enable-gnu-readline to ./configure should get it working
>>>> correctly.
>>>
>>> It doesn't sadly. I tried this first and regardless that I actually
>>> have readline compiled in /opt/local (using darwinports) I couldn't
>>> get readline support to be recognized by configure. That's the only
>>> reason I decided to patch instead.
>>
>> In which case we should try and fix that then.
>>
>> Can you run configure with readline as above and post the config.log
>> output compressed?
>
> Works on my Mac OS X installation with -enable-gnu-readline -- but  
> I have fink installed, and the BoxPlatform.pm module detects and  
> uses this.

And if we can make this work with the default OS X installation,  
surely that must be preferable. I tried again with beta3 and it still  
wouldn't pick up readline in darwinports.

Cheers

//johan