On 23 July 2010 21:40, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Thomas Bächler > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Am 23.07.2010 22:06, schrieb William Stein: >>> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Shing <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> When I compile Sage 4.5.1 in Opensue 11.3, I get the following >>>> error. >>>> My cpu is an AMD Athlon 1700XP. >>> >>> I think this is due to an incompatibility between your systemwide >>> readline and the one included in sage. You might try >>> cd SAGE_ROOT >>> rm local/lib/*readline* >> >> That'll work as a workaround. > > Thanks Thomas: the only reason I knew about this problem was because > you tracked it down, explained it to me, etc. > thanks! > >> >>>> >>>> [...] >>>> bash: symbol lookup error: bash: undefined symbol: >>>> rl_filename_rewrite_hook >> >> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9530 >> >> This might also be solved by upgrading readline - but as I mentioned in >> the above trac, this problem will always resurface sooner or later as >> long as sage puts its own readline version into the search path and is >> not _always_ at the very latest version. >> >> This now only affects Arch Linux and openSuSE, because all/most other >> distros are outdated enough to still use readline 5, which will not >> conflict in any way with readline 6 due to different library SONAMEs.
Sage could easily keep the latest readline. I don't think its a package which get updated a lot. 6.1 came out 1st Jan this year. 6.0 came out 20th Feb 2009 - almost a year earlier 5.2 (which was the the last of the 5.x series) came out in 2006. So ony two updated in 4 years. Dave Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
