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 Post subject: TAB Completion ?
PostPosted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 5:48 pm 

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I just now compiled Singular-3-1-4 from source code on Ubuntu-12.04 (development branch), AMD-Athlon Processor server. The compilation was successful. However after compilation I seem to have lost some features of the Singular command window like TAB completion (of command). Further the usual key-strokes like backspace and arrow keys produce their escape characters (e.g. ^H, ^[[A,^[[C, etc). In other words the command window behaves like VT-100 terminal.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

VInay


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 Post subject: Re: TAB Completion ?
PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:30 am 

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Install readline (and the development package to readline)
(configure searches for libreadline.a/libreadline.so and readline.h)
Rerun configure and make at least in the subdirectories
Singular and kernel:
Code:
cd Singular
./config.status --recheck
./config.status
cd ../kernel
make install
cd ../Singular
make install


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 Post subject: Re: TAB Completion ?
PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 6:33 pm 

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Ah! Thanks a lot. The libreadline-dev was the culprit. I didnt notice before compilation that this package was missing.

by the way how come it was not detected by config?

-- VInay


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PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 11:02 am 

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readline is optional.
If it is not found by configure a different way for input is used,
Depending on the existing libraries there are the following possibilities:
static readline, dynamic readline, emulated readline, fgets.
the Singular command
Code:
system("with");
outputs
(beside other tings) the chosen method


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 Post subject: Re: TAB Completion ?
PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 6:29 am 

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Can you please explain the difference between all 4? And how it is determined?

I could not trace much. I found variables in Singular/configure called ac_cv_*_readline. However I could not find the place these variables are set!

Also I found the #define's called HAVE_DYN_RL, HAVE_READLINE and FEREAD.


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:18 pm 

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static readline: input via readline, requires libreadline.* and readline.h
uses HAVE_READLINE
emulated readline: input with line editing, requires libtermcap or libncurses
or libcurses, uses HAVE_FEREAD
fgets: input via fgets (if all other fail)
dynamic readline: input via readline if libreadline.so is available at runtime
used HAVE_DYN_RL, will never be set automaically by configure
(it is thought for binary distributions: works also without libreadline.so,
but take advantage of it if possible)


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