tclreadline install fails under 10.10

[j. van den hoff]

very good -- thanks a lot! and I hope that you are right regarding it  
being easy ...


On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 13:28:27 +0200, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>  
wrote:

>
> On Apr 11, 2015, at 5:46 AM, j. van den hoff wrote:
>>
>> I ran into this problem today after upgrading from 10.9 to 10.10.3. the  
>> install fails with exactly the same error messages reported 4 months  
>> ago in the ticket https://trac.macports.org/ticket/46059. seemingly  
>> nothing could be done about the problem since then. is there any hope  
>> that this is going to be looked at by someone in the know in the near  
>> future? any advice how to workaround the problem would be appreciated,  
>> too, of course.
>>
>> thanks,
>> joerg
>>
>> PS: a bit of googling at least seems to indicate that the problem is  
>> not tclreadline specific but some principal thing with readline:
>>
>> https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2014-June/100837.html  
>> (samba)
>>
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-python/2014-March/006664.html  
>> (python)
>>
>> in the latter link there even is a patch reported for readline.c which  
>> allegedly fixes the problem. maybe this is of some help...
>
> I'll take a look. Looks like a problem I've seen and fixed in other  
> ports, so hopefully it's easy.
>