[Box Backup-dev] Re: [Box Backup] readline support on OS X

[Ben Summers]

On 18 Feb 2006, at 13:38, Martin Ebourne wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 14:31 +1100, Johan Allard wrote:
>> On 18/02/2006, at 10:58 AM, Martin Ebourne wrote:
>>> ii) Given that Apple is trying to emulate GNU readline then simply
>>> giving --enable-gnu-readline to ./configure should get it working
>>> correctly.
>>
>> It doesn't sadly. I tried this first and regardless that I actually
>> have readline compiled in /opt/local (using darwinports) I couldn't
>> get readline support to be recognized by configure. That's the only
>> reason I decided to patch instead.
>
> In which case we should try and fix that then.
>
> Can you run configure with readline as above and post the config.log
> output compressed?

Works on my Mac OS X installation with -enable-gnu-readline -- but I  
have fink installed, and the BoxPlatform.pm module detects and uses  
this.

Ben