[Ecls-list] success, was: broken local installation of ecl

[Oliver Kullmann]

rmaxima needs to be corrected, and I get
test failures now, but these seem to be
Maxima issues, so I continue on the Maxima
mailing list.

thanks!

Oliver


On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:57:03AM -0600, Robert Dodier wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Oliver Kullmann
> <O.Kullmann at swansea.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > setting LDFLAGS I was also able to compile ECL and to
> > build Maxima, but yet it's not usable:
> >
> > Neither the ECL nor the Maxima frontend now understands
> > any cursor key. As far as I know that is a readline thing,
> 
> Some Lisp varieties link in libreadline, some don't; ECL doesn't.
> 
> rmaxima is a script, installed as part of Maxima, which runs Maxima
> through a program named rlwrap, which provides readline functions to
> programs which don't have them otherwise. You'll have to install rlwrap
> separately. I forget where to get it; I think Google should find it.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Robert Dodier

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