[OmniOS-discuss] Missing readline module in r151014

[Dan McDonald]

> On Jul 31, 2015, at 4:48 AM, Cal Sawyer <cal-s at blue-bolt.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Setting up a new server on r151014 and found that a python script that ran on r151010 fails with this old python-chestnut:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/root/diskmap.py", line 9, in <module>
>     import subprocess, re, os, sys, readline, cmd, pickle, glob
> ImportError: No module named readline
> 
> It appears that 014's python package no longer includes lib-dynload/[64/]readline.so. Searching on python packages containing readline.so turns up

012's doesn't either.

When 012 updated to readline6.3, it broke the building of that python module.  Oddly enough, this never halted the python build process... it just kept going.  Not sure why that's the case, but that's the problem.

I'm working on a fix right now.  Please stay tuned.

Dan