On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Kiffin Gish wrote:
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 19:00 +0100, Moritz Lenz wrote:
Hi,
Kiffin Gish wrote:
How can recall previous commands (history) using ./perl6 without getting
^[[A^[[A instead?
You need to have readline development files installed when configuring
and building Rakudo, then it just works[tm].
I do have the readline support installed, e.g. CPAN works fine recalling
previous commands.
He's making a distinction between support for pre-compiled programs
(ie. stuff you download in packages), and programs you compile yourself. On
an RPM-based system (like Fedora or Redhat or SuSE), this means you need
the "readline-devel" package as well as "readline". Debian/Ubuntu has a
similar system, although I think they might call it dev-readline or something.
In the configure steps it should say
Sorry, but what do you mean by 'configuration steps' do you mean when I
initially install everything?
Yes, that's the one. When you go to compile and install your own
software, there are generally four steps:
1. Acquire (ie. download) software
2. "Configure" software (this is traditionally you choosing what options
the program will be compiled with, but these days is often fairly
automatic in figuring things out)
3. Compile software
4. Install software
Hope this overview helps.
auto::readline - Does your platform support
readline.................yes.
Then reconfigure and rebuild rakudo, and you should be happy.
:)
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