On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:37 AM B Gillespie <ceilings...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My system install of libreadline-dev shows up as version 7.0-3 in synaptic. > In a local prompt for python3, "import readline" executes without barking.
could you install libncurses5-dev (that's at least what is needed on Debian together with readline) and try again? (but, indeed, also please look at the hints at the end of ./configure's output, and follow them) > > Bryan > > On Monday, March 30, 2020 at 8:33:32 PM UTC-6, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >> >> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:29 AM B Gillespie <ceili...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Hi Matthias, >> > >> > For sure, thanks for taking a look. Also, I remembered that I actually >> > upgraded to Linux Mint 19 a number of months ago, in case that's relevant. >> >> Do you have libreadline-dev installed? >> >> > >> > Best, >> > Bryan >> > >> > On Monday, March 30, 2020 at 5:42:09 PM UTC-6, Matthias Koeppe wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi Bryan, >> >> >> >> On Monday, March 30, 2020 at 7:35:06 PM UTC-4, B Gillespie wrote: >> >>> >> >>> I'm having trouble compiling the Sage develop branch on my Linux Mint >> >>> 17.1 laptop. It dies when compiling Python 3, and in particular in the >> >>> log file I see that it is having a failure when testing the import for >> >>> the module "readline". Any ideas what might be the issue? >> >>> >> >>> As a little more info, I've successfully built older versions of Sage on >> >>> this operating system (earlier in the 18.X timeframe) but haven't needed >> >>> to build from source since 19.X. I've attached the log file for the >> >>> python3 build; let me know if any other information would be helpful. >> >> >> >> >> >> The top-level config.log would be helpful. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> > "sage-devel" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> > email to sage-...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/aad88984-0d68-4bfe-828c-a9e58f2db95a%40googlegroups.com. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/7c952869-610a-4f4c-82c0-878e980f2966%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAAWYfq2_ENHVOQJkCSw8y1ih6aUDSDrcbShc%2BU-O5XQY%3Dm57fw%40mail.gmail.com.