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From: jan@swi.psy.uva.nl (Jan Wielemaker)
Subject: Re: Help in compiling SWI-Prolog sought
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Organization: Social Science Informatics
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Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 09:26:41 GMT
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g3regold@cdf.toronto.edu (Richard Goldman) writes:

>I spent much of the weekend attempting to install SWI-Prolog on my
>Linux box at home.  No luck.  Yes, I read the various README's.
>Things go to hell in a hand-basket when the program hits pl-os.c.
>Spouts errors like various undefined functions.
>I suspect that much of the problem is an improper installation of
>the readline library.  But even following that is making me crazy.
>The readme refers to copying a file, readline.history, I think, 
>that doesn't seem to exist.

Have you tried version 1.9.3?  It is now based on GNU autoconf and
generally should just work.  If not, please E-mail me the output
of configure and make.

	Regards --- Jan
