: You really don't need readline to run tkinter, unless you insist on
: running in interactively.
: Regarding readline: I suggest you use readline 2.0. From the Python
: 1.1 README:
: - You can use the GNU readline library to improve the interactive user
: interface: this gives you line editing and command history when
: calling python interactively. You need to configure build the GNU
: readline library before running the configure script.
In ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/Libs, there's a package called
readline-2.0.x (x round about 2 or 3) which contains a shared library image
of readline-2.0.x, it's sources and some other goodies...
You'll need a newer ld.so (1.4.4 ?) to use that package.
Put the librl.so.2.0.x in /usr/lib, put a softlink named librl.so.2 in /lib
and compile python --with-readline=/usr/lib.
For me it worked.
Nasty: Both Ncurses and Readline are defining backspace. This collides when
using the cursesmodule and readline together.
For me putting a -Dbackspace=bAckspace in ncurses' Makefile was the cure. So
side effects so far... ;-)
I got a nearly full (module) featured python 1.0.3 running under linux. If
someone wants the binary, drop me a line... ;-)
Bye,
Ulf.
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