Has anyone but me had any trouble building CLISP on an OS X (10.4)
machine? I grabbed the CVS sources today and tried to build them and
it died with this message:

  stream.d: In function 'rl_memory_abort':
  stream.d:15068: error: 'rl_gnu_readline_p' Undeclared (first use in this function)
  make[1]: *** [stream.o] Error 1
  make: *** [staging/clisp-2.35/src/clisp] Error 2

Anyone know what this is about?

-Peter

P.S. I realize that this would be better addressed to the CLISP
developers list but the moderator of that list rejected my message
when I tried to post it there via Gmane. I'm hoping someone here can
help me out so I can build a refreshed OS X Lispbox without having to
subscribe to a mailing list I'd rather read via Gmane.

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Peter Seibel <peter@gigamonkeys.com> writes:

> Has anyone but me had any trouble building CLISP on an OS X (10.4)
> machine? I grabbed the CVS sources today and tried to build them and
> it died with this message:
>
>   stream.d: In function 'rl_memory_abort':
>   stream.d:15068: error: 'rl_gnu_readline_p' Undeclared (first use in this function)
>   make[1]: *** [stream.o] Error 1
>   make: *** [staging/clisp-2.35/src/clisp] Error 2
>
> Anyone know what this is about?

clisp-2.35 on 10.3 has no difficulties.
There must be a different or broken readline on 10.4.

If you install readline with fink, you should be able to compile using
it adding: --with-readline-prefix=/sw
to ./configure.

You can also compile clisp without readline: --without-readline

> P.S. I realize that this would be better addressed to the CLISP
> developers list but the moderator of that list rejected my message
> when I tried to post it there via Gmane. I'm hoping someone here can
> help me out so I can build a refreshed OS X Lispbox without having to
> subscribe to a mailing list I'd rather read via Gmane.

Right.  Better subscribe and address directly <clisp-list@lists.sourceforge.net>

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> * Peter Seibel <crgre@tvtnzbaxrlf.pbz> [2005-11-01 22:47:52 +0000]:
>
> Has anyone but me had any trouble building CLISP on an OS X (10.4)
> machine? I grabbed the CVS sources today and tried to build them and
> it died with this message:
>
>   stream.d: In function 'rl_memory_abort':
>   stream.d:15068: error: 'rl_gnu_readline_p' Undeclared (first use in this function)
>   make[1]: *** [stream.o] Error 1
>   make: *** [staging/clisp-2.35/src/clisp] Error 2
>
> Anyone know what this is about?

broken readline.

> P.S. I realize that this would be better addressed to the CLISP
> developers list but the moderator of that list rejected my message
> when I tried to post it there via Gmane. I'm hoping someone here can
> help me out so I can build a refreshed OS X Lispbox without having to
> subscribe to a mailing list I'd rather read via Gmane.

see <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/faq.html#faq-rejected>



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> * Peter Seibel <crgre@tvtnzbaxrlf.pbz> [2005-11-01 22:47:52 +0000]:
>
> Has anyone but me had any trouble building CLISP on an OS X (10.4)
> machine? I grabbed the CVS sources today and tried to build them and
> it died with this message:
>
>   stream.d: In function 'rl_memory_abort':
>   stream.d:15068: error: 'rl_gnu_readline_p' Undeclared (first use in this function)
>   make[1]: *** [stream.o] Error 1
>   make: *** [staging/clisp-2.35/src/clisp] Error 2
>
> Anyone know what this is about?

this question is answered in clisp/unix/PLATFORMS file in the source
distribution.


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