Subject: Re: readline 4.2, ldconfig, and octave-2.1.35
From: Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)
Date: Tue Jan 01 2002 - 11:42:39 MST
If you don't mind a slightly older version of octave, you may want to get the
YDL 2.1 rpm from:
ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/extras/yellowdog-2.1/ppc/
-- Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)
On Tuesday 01 January 2002 01:28, you wrote:
> I'm attempting to install octave-2.1.35 on YDL 2.0, which requires readline
> library version 4.1. The yup rpm has version 4.1, so I installed readline
> 4.2 in /usr/local and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include /usr/local/lib at
> front.
>
> The install of readline-4.2 gave the message "may need to run ldconfig.",
> which seems to be confirmed by the fact that the octave configure script
> does not find the newly-installed readline library unless I manually set
> it's internal search path.
>
> I'm out of my element trying to understand what do do here. There is no
> ldconfig man page installed, and the documentation from ldconfig -help
> doesn't seem to match the ldconfig man pages I find on the web.
>
> Any suggestions on how to proceed would be appreciated.
>
> [For those who don't know: octave serves as a decent replacement for MATLAB
> in many situations, although it's not 100% MATLAB compatible.]
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