I can't post there on ask.* from phone, I believe that installing
libncurses5-dev and libreadline-dev should allow the build to use system
readline.
this is how we made it work on John's machines.
Naturally, the *.m4 files must not be removed, and Sage's ncurses package
uninstalled with
make
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 02:50:41PM -0500, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> I can't post there on ask.* from phone, I believe that installing
> libncurses5-dev and libreadline-dev should allow the build to use system
> readline.
Unfortunately, what i understand from the post, the user does not have
root
On Fri, 11 Oct 2019, 12:36 Thierry, wrote:
> Thanks for your answer, please could you cc me if you open a ticket ?
>
I will - might take a bit of time, as I am travelling from IMA at UMN back
to UK today.
>
> Ciao,
> Thierry
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 12:27:28PM -0500, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
yuck, this is a symptome of underlinking in readline.
In their infinite wisdom readline's devs refuse to fix this old bug;
it needs to be linked with libtinfo or other suchlike library, and it
keeps resufacings in various forms...
I think I've made a patch to sage's readline for this, but it
On Fri, 11 Oct 2019, 16:04 Thierry, wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 02:50:41PM -0500, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> > I can't post there on ask.* from phone, I believe that installing
> > libncurses5-dev and libreadline-dev should allow the build to use system
> > readline.
>
> Unfortunately, what i
