On Aug 21, 2007, at 07:31, Tommaso Urli wrote:

Ok, I renamed libreadline.a and tried "port install readline". Now
let's see if it works.


On Aug 21, 2007, at 12:16, Tommaso Urli wrote:

As I said I reinstalled redaline through MacPorts, but still:

frodo:/usr/local/lib root# port selfupdate
[snip]
cc -dynamiclib -L/usr/local/lib  Pextlib.o strsed.o fgetln.o md5cmd.o
setmode.o xinstall.o fs-traverse.o strcasecmp.o vercomp.o filemap.o
sha1cmd.o compat.o curl.o rmd160cmd.o readline.o uid.o -o
Pextlib.dylib -L/System/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Versions/8.4
-ltclstub8.4 -L/usr/local/lib   -L/usr/lib -lcurl -lssl -lcrypto -lz
-lcrypto -lreadline
ld: warning prebinding disabled because of undefined symbols
ld: Undefined symbols:
_rl_completion_matches
_rl_filename_completion_function
_rl_username_completion_function
/usr/bin/libtool: internal link edit command failed
make[2]: *** [Pextlib.dylib] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 1

libreadline.a is the statically-linked library. Are you sure there aren't also any dynamically-linked libraries of readline in /usr/ local/lib? Their names would be libreadline.*.dylib.

You'll also want to check for and remove any readline includes in / usr/local/include.

Others have encountered this problem before; see:

http://rob.cogit8.org/blog/2006/Nov/06/macports-and-removing-fink/

http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2007-May/ 003230.html

I guess we should write a FAQ entry about it. Anyone wanna do that?

Devs: I think this problem occurs because MacPorts needs a newer version of readline than the one you have in /usr/local. Couldn't we add a check to ./configure to make sure the correct version of readline is available, and issue a sensible error message if not, rather than failing with this unfortunate undefined symbols error later on? Or, couldn't we instruct configure never to look for anything in /usr/local? I believe the latter has been suggested before but I don't remember the outcome.


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