Building readline 5.2 on OS X Leopard
Readline 5.2 does not build properly on OS X Leopard. It fails with a -compatibility_version only allowed with -dynamiclib error. I ran into this problem when trying to build ruby, using GNU readline instead of the default editline. The problem is easily fixed though. Readline explicitly checks for the darwin version, but does not include 9 (Leopard) in this check. Patch support/shobj-conf using the following:
--- support/shobj-conf 2007-12-26 18:30:46.000000000 +0900
+++ support/shobj-conf.new 2007-12-26 18:30:39.000000000 +0900
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@
;;
# Darwin/MacOS X
-darwin8*)
+darwin89*)
SHOBJ_STATUS=supported
SHLIB_STATUS=supported
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@
SHLIB_LIBSUFF='dylib'
case "${host_os}" in
- darwin[78]*) SHOBJ_LDFLAGS=''
+ darwin[789]*) SHOBJ_LDFLAGS=''
SHLIB_XLDFLAGS='-dynamiclib -arch_only `/usr/bin/arch` -install_name $(libdir)/$@ -current_version $(SHLIB_MAJOR)$(SHLIB_MINOR) -compatibility_version $(SHLIB_MAJOR) -v'
;;
*) SHOBJ_LDFLAGS='-dynamic'
and rerun configure and make.
The Secret Diary of Han, Aged 0x29 
Than you, it worked well.
DP
January 4, 2008 at 06:09
Perfect. Thanks a bunch!
Willy
January 12, 2008 at 07:30
I’m not sure why, but I got this error:
/tmp/readline-5.2> patch -p0 < leopard.patch
patching file support/shobj-conf
patch: **** malformed patch at line 4: ;;
I’m no patch(1) wizard, so maybe I missed an incantation. I got around it by just editing the file per the patch, though.
Very helpful anyway, though. Thanks!
Philip
March 26, 2008 at 13:00
Perfect. Thank you.
Andy Stewart
May 6, 2008 at 22:00
Firstly – thanks for the patch – it enabled me to build readline on OS X 10.5.2.
But I still can’t build ruby 1.9! Breaks on ‘compiling readline’:
readline.c: In function ‘filename_completion_proc_call’:
readline.c:670: error: ‘filename_completion_function’ undeclared (first use in this function)
readline.c:670: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
readline.c:670: error: for each function it appears in.)
readline.c:670: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
readline.c: In function ‘username_completion_proc_call’:
readline.c:695: error: ‘username_completion_function’ undeclared (first use in this function)
readline.c:695: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
make[1]: *** [readline.o] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 1
Surely someone must’ve got past this by now? I’ve done so much googling, but have turned up nothing that works…
James Frost
May 21, 2008 at 07:48
@James: Make sure to point to the right readline when building Ruby 1.9, like so:
./configure –prefix=/usr/local/ruby1.9 –with-readline-dir=/usr/local
Han
May 22, 2008 at 16:49
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June 28, 2008 at 18:14
Hi,
first of all, many thanks to Han for the brilliant hints. Although, even after applying all of them, I still received the same problem with Ruby 1.8.7p22 and 1.9.0 (but not with 1.8.6p120). Here is what finally did the job for me (using Leopard):
1) Download readline 5.2
2) Download all patches for readline 5.2 (currently 12 patches are available)
3) apply all patches
4) ./configure, make and sudo make install for patched readline [no parameters for my installation]
5) download Ruby 1.8.7 or 1.9.0
6) run ./configure –with-readline-dir=/usr/local
7) run make and sudo make install
I’m not sure where the differences are compared to Han’s recipe (I’m not very experienced experienced on compiler/make level). But it worked…
Hans-Uwe Brackel
July 7, 2008 at 04:08
The latest patch for the current version (at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.2-patches/readline52-012) is substantially the same as what Han provides above. It patches the OS check for Leopard (and a few other systems).
So if the one given here doesn’t work, that’s the next step.
Matthew Smillie
July 7, 2008 at 10:31
Thanks, it worked.
tioguerra
July 30, 2008 at 11:32
Can someone provide more explicit directions on how to apply patch #12?
I was able to apply the GNU patches 1-11 without any troubles, but with #12, there was an error:
~/Desktop/Downloads/readline-5.2 $patch < /Users/Eric/Desktop/patches/readline52-001.txt
patching file display.c
~/Desktop/Downloads/readline-5.2 $patch < /Users/Eric/Desktop/patches/readline52-002.txt
patching file display.c
~/Desktop/Downloads/readline-5.2 $patch < /Users/Eric/Desktop/patches/readline52-003.txt
patching file display.c
~/Desktop/Downloads/readline-5.2 $patch < /Users/Eric/Desktop/patches/readline52-004.txt
patching file display.c
~/Desktop/Downloads/readline-5.2 $patch < /Users/Eric/Desktop/patches/readline52-005.txt
patching file complete.c
patching file input.c
patching file isearch.c
patching file misc.c
patching file readline.c
patching file text.c
patching file vi_mode.c
~/Desktop/Downloads/readline-5.2 $patch < /Users/Eric/Desktop/patches/readline52-006.txt
patching file display.c
~/Desktop/Downloads/readline-5.2 $patch < /Users/Eric/Desktop/patches/readline52-007.txt
patching file input.c
~/Desktop/Downloads/readline-5.2 $patch < /Users/Eric/Desktop/patches/readline52-008.txt
patching file display.c
~/Desktop/Downloads/readline-5.2 $patch < /Users/Eric/Desktop/patches/readline52-009.txt
patching file display.c
~/Desktop/Downloads/readline-5.2 $patch < /Users/Eric/Desktop/patches/readline52-010.txt
patching file display.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 1623 (offset 4 lines).
~/Desktop/Downloads/readline-5.2 $patch < /Users/Eric/Desktop/patches/readline52-011.txt
patching file input.c
~/Desktop/Downloads/readline-5.2 $patch < /Users/Eric/Desktop/patches/readline52-012.txt
can’t find file to patch at input line 21
Perhaps you should have used the -p or –strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
————————–
| READLINE PATCH REPORT
| =====================
|
|Readline-Release: 5.2
|Patch-ID: readline52-012
|
|Bug-Reported-by: Chet Ramey
|Bug-Reference-ID:
|Bug-Reference-URL:
|
|Bug-Description:
|
|This updates the options required to create shared libraries on several
|systems, including Mac OS X 10.5 (darwin9.x), FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
|AIX, and HP/UX.
|
|Patch:
|
|*** ../readline-5.2-patched/support/shobj-conf 2006-04-11 09:15:43.000000000 -0400
|— support/shobj-conf 2007-12-06 23:46:41.000000000 -0500
————————–
File to patch:
Eric
August 28, 2008 at 03:37
Thanks alot! Worked perfectly!
Mike
August 30, 2008 at 19:59
Worked great for me. With regard to Eric’s question: when it says “File to patch: “, just input “support/shobj-conf”. The patch itself fails to look in the support directory.
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October 2, 2008 at 22:01
Thanks for the tip, this patch worked for me better as your version failed with the latest updates:
— a/support/shobj-conf
+++ b/support/shobj-conf
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ freebsd[3-9]*|freebsdelf[3-9]*|freebsdaout[3-9]*|dragonfly*)
;;
# Darwin/MacOS X
-darwin8*)
+darwin[89]*)
SHOBJ_STATUS=supported
SHLIB_STATUS=supported
Attila Babo
October 6, 2008 at 20:42
[…] As it happens, when I compiled Python 2.5 or higher on OS X, it linked to either the OS X readline library or the MacPorts one. Which one I don’t know, but it was definitely hosed. So while the interpreter worked fine, the interpreter shell would crash with a Bus Error. So what I did was compile my own plain vanilla version of readline and installed it to /opt. Of course that didn’t work right away because readline wouldn’t build on OS X Leopard without applying a small patch to a build script. […]
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January 4, 2009 at 07:42
Issue the following command on Snow Leopard (10.6) after compiling Python (assumed path = /opt/Python-2.6.3) to add readline support to the new Python install.
cp /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/readline.so /opt/Python-2.6.3/lib/python2.6/site-packages/
Kamal Gill
October 3, 2009 at 05:38