[Users] [Einstein Toolkit] #1938: trouble installing readline

[Erik Schnetter]

David

It might be that you deviate from the recommended install instructions
earlier. Cactus and the Einstein Toolkit contain many thorns, and not all
thorns build on all systems. Quite unfortunately, Cactus's default
behaviour is to actually try and build all thorns it finds, which is the
thing that is "it's about time". If you provide a thorn list when creating
a new configuration, then you'll build far fewer thorns -- in particular
you'll build only thorns that are officially supported and should work out
of the box.

I don't think there is ever a case where I'd want to build all thorns that
Cactus finds. Thus the default of creating a thorn list from all thorns
isn't good. It should be changed to abort with an error instead, requiring
an explicit thorn list.

-erik


On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 8:43 PM, David Rosenberg <drdnrosenberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The fact that 'lbncurses' and 'lua' don't compile is an old story the
> answer to is all over the internet.  ld gives a message back exit 1 while
> trying to compile  these, 'ltermcap' routine is missing. Many many people
> have posted this problem  and solutions which I wasted 2 months of my spare
> time on.  It's about time you either fixed these library routines or at
> least warned people about this long standing problem.   David Rosenberg
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 8:29 PM, David Rosenberg <drdnrosenberg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Sorry for my ignorance but put your Verbose instructions in makefile..
>> Attached are the  Cactus output. File A is the gmake config and File B is
>> just gmake. The build log are very small but also attached. The two problem
>> libraries were in /Cactus/configs/Cactus/scratch. the libncurses config log
>> is attached. lua did not have one.  Thank you for any help.  David
>> Rosenberg.
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Einstein Toolkit <
>> trac-noreply at einsteintoolkit.org> wrote:
>>
>>> #1938: trouble installing readline
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------+-------------------------------------
>>>   Reporter:  drdnrosenberg@…          |       Owner:  David Rosenberg
>>>       Type:  defect                   |      Status:  new
>>>   Priority:  critical                 |   Milestone:  ET_2016_11
>>>  Component:  Cactus                   |     Version:  ET_2015_05
>>> Resolution:                           |    Keywords:
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------+-------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Comment (by sbrandt):
>>>
>>>  Ah, now I understand. Lua does not actually *need* readline however. It
>>>  can be compiled without it.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ticket URL: <https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/1938#comment:4>
>>> Einstein Toolkit <http://einsteintoolkit.org>
>>> The Einstein Toolkit
>>>
>>
>>
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Erik Schnetter <schnetter at cct.lsu.edu>
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