Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 15:45:44 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Paul Traina <pst@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: chuckr@FreeBSD.ORG, asami@FreeBSD.ORG, jseeger@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: octave port Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971130154352.376N-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <199711302029.MAA20374@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Paul Traina wrote:
> Chuck,
> It looks like octave is installing obsolete versions of libreadline (and
> other stuff) in /usr/local/lib.
>
> Could you fix the port to either use the system readline code or not
> install "misc" shared libraries in /usr/local/lib {readline,history,kpathsea}?
>
> I suspect Octave is unfortunately breaking any ports that require readline 2.1
> functionality (pilot-link).
I'll take a look at it. JW Eaton won't take realine out (I asked him a
great long time ago to do that). I just wish you could have asked for
something other than the 2nd largest port out there, it takes more than an
hour to do a test build -- on a very fast machine!
I'll probably have to rename the octave readline.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
>
>
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