Re: Installing PARI

[Cherry Kearton <cherry.kearton@durham.ac.uk>]

I followed your advice and got Yast to instal libncurses-devel, and I 
installed readline from the web: PARI then installed without a hitch.  
Thank you for all your help.

Cherry

Bill Allombert wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 10:17:24AM +0100, Cherry Kearton wrote:
>  
>
> > Bill Allombert wrote:
> > Thank you for the fix: I tried it, with the output in the attached 
> > file.  "make gp" certainly got a lot further, but still failed. 
> >    
>
> This one is easier: you need to install the ncurses.so symlink
> probably in the RPM libncurses-devel, else you cannot
> compile with readline support.
>
> Alternatively, you can desactivate readline support by running
> ./Configure -a
> and answering "no" to 
> Do you want to use GNU readline library within GP ? 
>
> but readline support is reallyy nice to have
>
> Cheers,
> Bill
>  
>
> > ...Found libreadline in /usr/local/lib
> > ...Found libncurses in /lib
> > ...Found GNU readline header in /usr/local/include/readline
> > ...Library ncurses needed by readline
> > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.5/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make[1]: *** [gp-dyn] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/cherry/pari-2.1.7/Olinux-i686'
> > make: *** [gp] Error 2
> > cherry@linux:~/pari-2.1.7> make bench
> > cd Olinux-i686; make bench
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/cherry/pari-2.1.7/Olinux-i686'
> > rm -f gp-sta
> > /usr/bin/gcc -o gp-sta -O3 -DGCC_INLINE -Wall -Wno-implicit -fomit-frame-pointer   -Xlinker -export-dynamic kernel.o mp.o alglin1.o alglin2.o arith1.o arith2.o base1.o base2.o base3.o base4.o base5.o bibli1.o bibli2.o buch1.o buch2.o buch3.o buch4.o galconj.o gen1.o gen2.o gen3.o ifactor1.o polarit1.o polarit2.o polarit3.o rootpol.o subgroup.o trans1.o trans2.o trans3.o elliptic.o galois.o kummer.o mpqs.o nffactor.o stark.o subfield.o thue.o anal.o compat.o errmsg.o es.o helpmsg.o init.o sumiter.o mpinl.o gp.o gp_init.o gp_rl.o highlvl.o whatnow.o plot.o plotport.o  -Xlinker -rpath -Xlinker  /home/cherry/pari-2.1.7/Olinux-i686:/usr/local/lib: -L/usr/local/lib -lreadline -lncurses  -ldl -lm
> > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.5/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make[1]: *** [gp-sta] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/cherry/pari-2.1.7/Olinux-i686'
> > make: *** [bench] Error 2
> > cherry@linux:~/pari-2.1.7>    
> >