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#29 sqsh output like MySQL

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#22 Allow wordlist and dynamic completion simultanieously

Martin Wesdorp — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 15:30:53 -0000

status: closed --> closed-fixed
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Group: --> v2.4

#17 Fix for password hiding pipe problems

Martin Wesdorp — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 15:29:04 -0000

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Group: --> v2.4

#29 sqsh output like MySQL

Martin Wesdorp — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 15:15:05 -0000

status: accepted --> closed-fixed
Group: v2.4 --> v2.5

#29 sqsh output like MySQL

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 19:15:08 -0000

My mistake this time. I forgot ./configure --with-readline. Now sqsh works with cursor keys!

~$ otool -L /usr/local/bin/sqsh
/usr/local/bin/sqsh:
      /usr/local/lib/libct.4.dylib (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 5.0.0)
      /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1197.1.1)
      /usr/local/opt/readline/lib/libreadline.6.2.dylib (compatibility version 6.0.0, current version 6.2.0)
      /usr/lib/libncurses.5.4.dylib (compatibility version 5.4.0, current version 5.4.0)

#29 sqsh output like MySQL

Martin Wesdorp — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:28:30 -0000

Normally speaking you would not need lemon nor flex to make the sqsh_parser.a archive library because the generated files are already there. Because the timestamps of these files in CVS are not correct, "make" thinks the source files are newer and need to be processed again. In the final distribution package of sqsh-2.5 I will make sure the generated files will be touched so will not be recreated again with lemon or flex. You ran into this problem because of the CVS tarball download, I am afraid.

OK, so now you are able to build sqsh, so we are getting somewhere. Could you please check with

ldd /usr/local/bin/sqsh

which readline library will be loaded. I assume sqsh is linked dynamically and is trying to load a version of libreadline.so.6, but is it the correct one? How is the original homebrew sqsh version created, statically or dynamically linked? What happens if you try to set

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/opt/readline/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

in your shell, does that make any difference in the "ldd" output and does sqsh works correctly then or is it still encountering cursor key problems?

HTH, Martin.

#29 sqsh output like MySQL

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 15:08:08 -0000

You are probably right. Installing readline from Homebrew says the following:

OS X provides the BSD libedit library, which shadows libreadline.

In order to prevent conflicts when programs look for libreadline
we are defaulting this GNU Readline installation to keg-only.

If you build your own software and it requires this formula,
you'll need to add to your build variables:

export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/readline/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/readline/include"

I got another problem:

~/sqsh$ sudo make install
lemon -q -s -q tsql.y
make[1]: lemon: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [tsql.c] Error 1

I solved this by doing brew install lemon.

Finally, sqsh was installed. But I still get the ^[[C control characters when pressing cursor keys. (Note that this DOES work with the official release of sqsh in Homebrew).

Any ideas?

#29 sqsh output like MySQL

Martin Wesdorp — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 20:50:18 -0000

Could be that your readline implementation is basically a port from the NetBSD editline library that is not compatible with GNU readline implementations. As I understand, there are legal issues on Apple OS X with GNU GPL licenses, and that might be the reason why there is no standard GNU readline library package available. (Correct me if I'm wrong, :-) ).
So the best solution would be to build readline yourself from the sources, I suggest.

#29 sqsh output like MySQL

Martin Wesdorp — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 08:25:44 -0000

Could you please attach your /usr/include/readline/readline.h and /usr/include/readline/history.h file, so I can have a look at the OSX readline implementation. It looks like OSX defines add_history as a function returning int, while on all other platforms this function is declared void.

#29 sqsh output like MySQL

Thu, 23 Jan 2014 05:02:33 -0000

My readline installation is stable 6.2.4 via Homebrew. Shouldn't this be sufficient?

http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html