[OS X TeX] Asymptote and Latex for Tiger

[Gerben Wierda]

I think I can do this quickly. Just wait a short while for an  
experimental i-Package.

G

On Oct 8, 2006, at 12:35 , Gerben Wierda wrote:

> On Oct 8, 2006, at 11:28 , Alain Matthes wrote:
>
>> Hello :) sorry for my bad english
>>
>> I know that's is off topic but Asymptote is a very good soft and  
>> on Ubuntu
>> it' a pleasure to work with him and latex.
>>
>> I've some difficulties to compile the source on a G5 mono.
>> Perhaps someone succeeded in doing it and can explain me how to  
>> proceed
>
> I had a quick look. It seems that the readline that ships with Mac  
> OS X ( eve the most recent one) is old. asymptote assumes a  
> different readline and compilation fails on the differences.
>
> There are two ways forward:
> - patch asymptote until it matches Apple's readline from 2004 or  
> better until it can handle older readlines properly when compiling.
> - install readline from 2005 (this is risky if not performed with  
> care)
>
> A bit more inspection of asymptote (ChangeLog) suggests you can  
> compile een when readline is not present. You will get a asy that  
> has no command line editing, but that does work. So, after  
> configure, I dited Makefile and config.h to remove readline (no - 
> lreadline in Makefile and the READLINE define commented out in  
> config.h).
>
> After that I got a complete compile. If I was not so busy, I could  
> probably create an i-Package for it in an hour or so.
>
> It may be best to ask the asymptote maintainers to add a --without- 
> readline option to ./configure
>
> Yours,
>
> G
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