slefupdate failure

[Ryan Schmidt]

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On Apr 1, 2007, at 11:44, Massimo Di Stefano wrote:

> Il giorno 01/apr/07, alle ore 01:15, Ryan Schmidt ha scritto:
>
>> On Mar 31, 2007, at 11:27, Elias Pipping wrote:
>>
>>> On Mar 31, 2007, at 4:59 PM, Massimo Di Stefano wrote:
>>>
>>>> ld: Undefined symbols:
>>>> _rl_completion_matches
>>>> _rl_filename_completion_function
>>>> _rl_username_completion_function
>>>> /usr/bin/libtool: internal link edit command failed
>>>
>>> Is it possible that you have readline installed in /usr/local ?
>>
>> To complete Elias's thought: If you do have readline in /usr/ 
>> local, that's a problem for MacPorts. Get rid of that version of  
>> readline, if you're not using it for anything. If you are using  
>> it, then you'll need to temporarily move it out of the way, do  
>> your thing with MacPorts, then move your readline back in place.  
>> But note that you may very well need to do this each time you want  
>> to use any part of MacPorts, which will get tedious.
>
>
> hi,
>
> i never installed readline from source, in usr/local
>
> i do not know if this can be an incompatibily with other unix-tools
> like fink or some frameworks that i've installed.
>
>
>
> i've tried to "comment #" the fink path in my .bash_profile
> and than i restarted term.app and launch again the sefupdate  
> command, but nothing changes.
>
> have you a suggestion a bout on "how check the problem" ?

The error message really does point to a rogue readline somewhere in  
your path. To see everywhere that you have readline on your system,  
try this:

find / -name '*readline*' 2>/dev/null