readline problems on FC6 systems



On 12/4/06, Kuba Ober <ober.14 at osu.edu> wrote:

> readline functionality stopped working for me in gcl and maxima after an
> upgrade to FC6. Pressing up/down arrows displays some control codes (e.g. up
> arrow displays ^[[A).

Does GCL advertise readline? Here's what I see when I start gcl:

$ gcl
GCL (GNU Common Lisp)  2.6.7 ANSI    Sep  7 2005 08:48:20
Source License: LGPL(gcl,gmp), GPL(unexec,bfd)
Binary License:  GPL due to GPL'ed components: (READLINE BFD UNEXEC)
etc.

and also inspecting *FEATURES* --

>*features*

(:ANSI-CL :COMMON-LISP :COMPILER :NUMLIB :CLOS-CONDITIONS
    :PCL-STRUCTURES :PORTABLE-COMMONLOOPS :PCL :TURBO-CLOSURE-ENV-SIZE
    :TURBO-CLOSURE :SDEBUG :DEFPACKAGE :GNU-LD :UNEXEC :BFD
    :NATIVE-RELOC :READLINE :TRUNCATE_USE_C :CLX-LITTLE-ENDIAN :BSD
etc.

If GCL says it has readline, does readline work in GCL alone (without Maxima) ?

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Hope this helps
Robert Dodier