Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Pete Jemian <[email protected]> · Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:40:12 -0500

aptitude install libreadline-dev

(USB device support is not particularly relevant to this question)

Mehta, Pratik wrote:

While installing epics base on ubuntu linux I got the following error while running make

/usr/bin/gcc -c   -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L -D_POSIX_THREADS -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500           -D_X86_  -DUNIX  -D_BSD_SOURCE -Dlinux  -D_REENTRANT -ansi   -O3   -Wall   -DEPICS_COMMANDLINE_LIBRARY=EPICS_COMMANDLINE_LIBRARY_READLINE   -m32     -g -fPIC -I. -I../O.Common -I. -I../../../src/libCom/osi/os/Linux -I../../../src/libCom/osi/os/posix -I../../../src/libCom/osi/os/default -I.. -I../../../src/libCom/bucketLib -I../../../src/libCom/ring -I../../../src/libCom/calc -I../../../src/libCom/cvtFast -I../../../src/libCom/cppStd -I../../../src/libCom/cxxTemplates -I../../../src/libCom/dbmf -I../../../src/libCom/ellLib -I../../../src/libCom/env -I../../../src/libCom/error -I../../../src/libCom/fdmgr -I../../../src/libCom/freeList -I../../../src/libCom/gpHash -I../../../src/libCom/iocsh -I../../../src/libCom/logClient -I../../../src/libCom/macLib -I../../../src/libCom/misc -I../../../src/libCom/osi -I../../../src/libCom/taskwd -I../../../src/libCom/timer -I../../../src/libCom/tsDef!

s -I../../../include/os/Linux -I../../../include ../../../src/libCom/osi/os/default/epicsReadline.c

../../../src/libCom/osi/os/default/epicsReadline.c:76:31: error: readline/readline.h: No such file or directory
../../../src/libCom/osi/os/default/epicsReadline.c:77:30: error: readline/history.h: No such file or directory
../../../src/libCom/osi/os/default/epicsReadline.c: In function ‘epicsReadlineBegin’:
../../../src/libCom/osi/os/default/epicsReadline.c:101: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘stifle_history’
../../../src/libCom/osi/os/default/epicsReadline.c:102: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘rl_bind_key’
../../../src/libCom/osi/os/default/epicsReadline.c:102: error: ‘rl_insert’ undeclared (first use in this function)
../../../src/libCom/osi/os/default/epicsReadline.c:102: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
../../../src/libCom/osi/os/default/epicsReadline.c:102: error: for each function it appears in.)
../../../src/libCom/osi/os/default/epicsReadline.c: In function ‘epicsReadline’:
../../../src/libCom/osi/os/default/epicsReadline.c:124: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘readline’
../../../src/libCom/osi/os/default/epicsReadline.c:124: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
../../../src/libCom/osi/os/default/epicsReadline.c:162: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘add_history’
make[3]: *** [epicsReadline.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/pratik/epics/base-3.14.10/src/libCom/O.linux-x86'
make[2]: *** [install.linux-x86] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/pratik/epics/base-3.14.10/src/libCom'
make[1]: *** [libCom.install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/pratik/epics/base-3.14.10/src'
make: *** [src.install] Error 2

I guess some required packages may be missing,
Can anyone tell me which ?

Thank you,
Confused Pratik

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