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

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Bugs item #474831, was opened at 2001-10-25 04:15
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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


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>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.



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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


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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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