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FS#3460 - bc with readline support needed

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Johannes Bittner (theclaw) - Friday, 11 November 2005, 12:42 GMT
Last edited by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Saturday, 11 February 2006, 13:50 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To dorphell (dorphell)
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

hi there. the bc package in archlinux doesn't support readline, but without it its nearly unusable in interactive operation. when trying to compile it by myself, i get an error, conflicting types for readline, and "flex" is invoced by "make" with "-I8" as a parameter, but "-I" doesn't allow to specify one. (strange.. i guess another lexer supports.. uhmmm) its relatively easy to correct and works afterwards - would be nice if the precompiled package also had readline support.

bye bye
theclaw
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Tuesday, 27 March 2007, 16:58 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Jürgen Hötzel (juergen) - Sunday, 27 November 2005, 17:26 GMT
Yes, -I8 is invalid on newer flex builds. Patches enclosed.

Jürgen
Comment by Cristian Gimenez (kastor) - Wednesday, 25 October 2006, 14:11 GMT
any news about this?
Comment by Timo Hirvonen (tihirvon) - Wednesday, 15 November 2006, 13:22 GMT
Hi,

I also need readline support for bc. Do I have to install Debian to get usable bc? ;)
Comment by Ryan (dogfin) - Monday, 27 November 2006, 23:42 GMT
The PKGBUILD.diff didn't work for me, I made one change:

this line:
make || return 1

became:
make LEX="flex -I -8" || return 1

Other than that it works great and I love having readline support.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Wednesday, 17 January 2007, 11:02 GMT
bc-readline is now in Community: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6073

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