Martin,

After the rebuild/reinstall of readline, readline.h is different than history.h... AND NOT A LINK. NO OTHER CHANGES. Same build script...

I did NOT do "svn up" but this current build attempt succeeded. AND THE BEST PART... command line editing works now.  This probably explains why my python-3.x build and IDLE didn't do command line editing either. Sigh... To err is human, to get things really screwed up requires a computer.

I wonder why I had this problem with readline? Maybe it only happens with a fresh install? I'll try that.

Let me do an svn up and re-build... This worked WITHOUT INCIDENT. Go figure...

I guess you can close this bug... If I discover what the problem is/was, I'll let you guys know.

THANKS for all your help...

George...

"It's not what you know that hurts you, It's what you know that ain't so." Wil Rogers

--- On Thu, 1/27/11, Martin v. Löwis <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

From: Martin v. Löwis <report@bugs.python.org>
Subject: [issue11013] Build of  2.7 svn fails in readline
To: grgoffe@yahoo.com
Date: Thursday, January 27, 2011, 12:29 PM

Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> I traced back to where that readline installation came from... It's
> the latest version from ftp.gnu.org + patches.

Did you mean to imply that you have now fixed your installation, or that
you consider it correct?

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