[Pythonmac-SIG] readline: where and how installed?

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 13-apr-2006, at 18:47, Zachary Pincus wrote:

>>> This is for Bob Ippolito -
>>
>> No it isn't, Bob didn't build the 2.4.3 release ;-)
>
> Sorry sorry! Thanks for making that build, by the way.
>
>>
>>>
>>> What version of readline comes with the Universal MacPython 2.4.3
>>> release? And is it statically-linked, or is there a readline dylib
>>> somewhere in the python framework?
>>
>> It is a staticly linked version of GNU readline 5.1.
>
> So... I have found that IPython exposes a bug in GNU readline 5.1,  
> sadly enough. This bug causes segfaults when the up-arrow key is  
> used under certain situations. Ugh. Fortunately, the extant  
> readline 5.1 patches solve this issue nicely. Hopefully you'll get  
> a chance in the near future to update the Universal MacPython 2.4.3  
> distribution so that it doesn't have this issue.

Which patch? Please provide a link to that patch, I won't go hunting  
for it.

>
> Also, a related query: Is there somewhere in the Python Framework  
> structure that is appropriate for placing dynamic libraries that  
> Python would link to? Judicious use of the install_name_tool and  
> friends could produce a libreadline.dylib that the python binary  
> would expect at a particular relative path from itself. This would  
> allow that library to be dynamically linked, yet still live within  
> (and be distributed with) the framework. Just a thought -- but it  
> might be more work than it's worth.

I don't see what this would buy us. It is possible to do this, but  
IMHO not really worth the trouble.

Ronald