[yt-users] readline installation failing

[Pengfei Chen]

Hi guys,

I have installed yt (development version) on my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Then
I tried to install readline so that I can see the previous commands in
iyt. I did "pip install readline" under /yt/bin, but it showed error:
============ Building the readline extension module ============

running install

running build

running build_ext

building 'readline' extension

gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -DHAVE_RL_CALLBACK -DHAVE_RL_CATCH_SIGNAL
-DHAVE_RL_COMPLETION_APPEND_CHARACTER
-DHAVE_RL_COMPLETION_DISPLAY_MATCHES_HOOK -DHAVE_RL_COMPLETION_MATCHES
-DHAVE_RL_COMPLETION_SUPPRESS_APPEND -DHAVE_RL_PRE_INPUT_HOOK -I.
-I/home/madcpf/Documents/dev_yt/include/python2.7 -c
Modules/2.x/readline.c -o
build/temp.linux-i686-2.7/Modules/2.x/readline.o
-Wno-strict-prototypes

as: /home/madcpf/Documents/dev_yt/lib/libz.so.1: no version
information available (required by /usr/lib/libbfd-2.22-system.so)

gcc -pthread -shared -L/home/madcpf/Documents/dev_yt/lib/
-L/home/madcpf/Documents/dev_yt/lib64/
-L/home/madcpf/Documents/dev_yt/lib/
-L/home/madcpf/Documents/dev_yt/lib64/
-L/home/madcpf/Documents/dev_yt/lib/
-L/home/madcpf/Documents/dev_yt/lib64/
-L/home/madcpf/Documents/dev_yt/lib/
-L/home/madcpf/Documents/dev_yt/lib64/
build/temp.linux-i686-2.7/Modules/2.x/readline.o
readline/libreadline.a readline/libhistory.a -lncurses -o
build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/readline.so

gcc: error: readline/libreadline.a: No such file or directory

gcc: error: readline/libhistory.a: No such file or directory

error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

----------------------------------------
Command /home/madcpf/Documents/dev_yt/bin/python2.7 -c "import
setuptools;__file__='/home/madcpf/Documents/dev_yt/bin/build/readline/setup.py';exec(compile(open(__file__).read().replace('\r\n',
'\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --single-version-externally-managed
--record /tmp/pip-EMEAm1-record/install-record.txt failed with error
code 1 in /home/madcpf/Documents/dev_yt/bin/build/readline
Storing complete log in /home/madcpf/.pip/pip.log

Then I googled the error "gcc: error: readline/libreadline.a: No such
file or directory", but I still can't find a way that works. Any ideas
what I should do?

Thank you!

Pengfei