[Baypiggies] Python2.5 and readline

[wesley chun]

> I installed Python2.5 and 'import readline' gives an error.
>
> Even if I try using my old python executable
> (python2.4) which used to have this functionality,
> I get the "cannot import readline" error.
>  From the docs, it looks like this module should
> be automatically available for unix systems.


i've had this problem lately as well, during the 2.4 and 2.5
timeframe.  i believe the systems that i have been using (a variety of
Linux) *did* have readline installed, but ./configure hadn't been able
to find the libreadline.so file.  unfortunately my external box is
down at the moment so i can't give you the exact recipe, but i
basically had to manually create/add/update a CPP_LIBRARY_PATH(sp?)
and LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variables so that configure could pick
up the right directory containing the readline library and its header
files.

hope this helps!
-- wesley
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