Re: building Python: up arrow broken on SuSE Linux 8.2

2005-01-28 Thread Peter Otten
Erik Johnson wrote: >> Have you ensured (with yast) that readline-devel is actually installed? > > I had not previously, but (not surprisingly) version 4.3 is installed. :) According to http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/CHANGES the features you missed were introduced in readline 4.0 a

Re: building Python: up arrow broken on SuSE Linux 8.2

2005-01-27 Thread Erik Johnson
"Peter Otten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... > Have you ensured (with yast) that readline-devel is actually installed? I had not previously, but (not surprisingly) version 4.3 is installed. :) Good idea - I thought maybe I would be able to do an online update (YOU) to it, but it is taking fore

Re: building Python: up arrow broken on SuSE Linux 8.2

2005-01-27 Thread Peter Otten
Erik Johnson wrote: > the Apple Python distribution the OP was asking about.  I now notice this > in the output of configure: > > checking for rl_pre_input_hook in -lreadline... no > checking for rl_completion_matches in -lreadline... no > > > My system has /lib/libreadline.so.4.3.   I guess it

Re: building Python: up arrow broken on SuSE Linux 8.2

2005-01-26 Thread Erik Johnson
"Erik Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > So I downloaded & built libreadline version 5.0. I have libreadline.a > and shlib/libreadline.so.5.0 files. Having done Python & other scripting > languages for a while, I have sort of forgotten all the ugly details

Re: building Python: up arrow broken on SuSE Linux 8.2

2005-01-26 Thread Erik Johnson
advice on how to statically link in this library so the Python build is happy? Thanks, -ej - Original Message - From: "Peter Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 3:22 AM Subject: Re: building Python: up arrow b

Re: building Python: up arrow broken on SuSE Linux 8.2

2005-01-26 Thread Peter Maas
Erik Johnson schrieb: I am trying to upgrade my Python installation. After downloading sources and building Python 2.3.4, I am unable to use the command history editing feature in the interactive interpreter (where the up-arrow would previously give you the last command line to edit, it now jus

building Python: up arrow broken on SuSE Linux 8.2

2005-01-25 Thread Erik Johnson
I am trying to upgrade my Python installation. After downloading sources and building Python 2.3.4, I am unable to use the command history editing feature in the interactive interpreter (where the up-arrow would previously give you the last command line to edit, it now just prints "^[[A".) Thi