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From: Vincent Davis on 14 Jun 2010 09:09 On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Thomas Jollans <thomas(a)jollans.com> wrote: > On 06/14/2010 02:37 PM, Vincent Davis wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Irmen de Jong <irmen-NOSPAM-(a)xs4all.nl> wrote: >>> On 14-6-2010 1:19, Vincent Davis wrote: >>>> >>>> I just installed 2.6 and 3.1 from current maintenance source on Mac >>>> OSx. When I am running as an interactive terminal session the up arrow >>>> does not scroll thought the history of the py commands I have entered >>>> I just get ^[[A. When I install from a compiled source it works fine. >>>> Whats the fix for this? >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> Vincent >>> >>> I'm guessing you don't have the readline module. >>> >>> Compile and install GNU Readline, then type 'make' again in your Python >>> source tree. It should now no longer report a missing 'readline' module. >> >> What exactly do you mean by "'make' again in your Python source tree." > > You installed Python from source didn't you? At some point you'll have > to invoke make, unless some tool did that for you. > > Anyway, make sure readline is installed, and then recompile Python. So I should run ../configure make install again? Will this overwrite other py packages I have installed? Vincent > >> >> Thanks >> Vincent >> >>> >>> -irmen >>> -- >>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >>> > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
From: Benjamin Kaplan on 14 Jun 2010 11:08 On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Vincent Davis <vincent(a)vincentdavis.net> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Thomas Jollans <thomas(a)jollans.com> wrote: >> On 06/14/2010 02:37 PM, Vincent Davis wrote: >>> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Irmen de Jong <irmen-NOSPAM-(a)xs4all.nl> wrote: >>>> On 14-6-2010 1:19, Vincent Davis wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I just installed 2.6 and 3.1 from current maintenance source on Mac >>>>> OSx. When I am running as an interactive terminal session the up arrow >>>>> does not scroll thought the history of the py commands I have entered >>>>> I just get ^[[A. When I install from a compiled source it works fine. >>>>> Whats the fix for this? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks >>>>> Vincent >>>> >>>> I'm guessing you don't have the readline module. >>>> >>>> Compile and install GNU Readline, then type 'make' again in your Python >>>> source tree. It should now no longer report a missing 'readline' module. >>> >>> What exactly do you mean by "'make' again in your Python source tree." >> >> You installed Python from source didn't you? At some point you'll have >> to invoke make, unless some tool did that for you. >> >> Anyway, make sure readline is installed, and then recompile Python. > > So I should run > ./configure > make install > again? > Will this overwrite other py packages I have installed? > > Vincent > That should be ../configure make make install You missed a rather important step. I don't think it will overwrite anything except for the files that are part of Python itself, but I'm not completely sure.
From: Irmen de Jong on 14 Jun 2010 13:52
On 14-6-2010 15:09, Vincent Davis wrote: >> Anyway, make sure readline is installed, and then recompile Python. > > So I should run > ./configure > make install > again? > Will this overwrite other py packages I have installed? > > Vincent Often there is no need to run the configure script again if you're just satisfying build prerequisites for extension modules. Python's build script is smart enough to discover the sudden availability of the readline library, and will happily build the readline module. Just typing 'make install' should be enough. Irmen |