Fail to install DP

Stefani Gerber stefani.gerber at students.unibe.ch
Mon Oct 2 08:39:35 PDT 2006


You're right, it was probably installed by some third party software
(don't know which one).
BTW: There's a ticket about the problem in trac
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/10651

Stefani

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Oct 2, 2006, at 07:05, Stefani Gerber wrote:
> 
>> A friend found a way to solve the problem so I'll write what worked for
>> me in case anyone runs into the same problem.
>> It's something about the default (apple) readline installation (or maybe
>> a rather broken readline-installation on my system (-:). What helped was
>> to move "/usr/local/lib/libreadline.a" and "/usr/local/include/readline"
>> to a different folder before configure, make, sudo make install. Moved
>> the files back afterwards and had no problems so far.
> 
> How did /usr/local/lib/libreadline.a get there? Apple does not provide
> anything under /usr/local. You must have installed it manually at some
> point, or something you used did.
> 
> 
> 



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