From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Nov 30 12:46:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA03533 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 12:46:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA03474; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 12:46:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA21840; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 15:45:46 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: picnic.mat.net: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 15:45:44 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@picnic.mat.net To: Paul Traina cc: chuckr@FreeBSD.ORG, asami@FreeBSD.ORG, jseeger@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: octave port In-Reply-To: <199711302029.MAA20374@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------