installing neuron by sources on fedora core 7

[tom_morse]

When installing neuron by sources on FC7 the following packages need to be installed so that header files for x11, readline, and the Xext libraries are available for the build:

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yum install libXt-devel libXext-devel readline-devel

(End of of what is needed)
The below error messages are included here to help find this message.
Without the above when you build iv error messages will appear:
unable to find the X headers in iv configure:

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./configure --prefix=`pwd` command:
...
checking for X... no
configure: error: cannot find X11
$

and in the (iv) make:

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/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext

When you build nrn, error messages will appear:

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$ make
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/morse/neuron/nrn'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/morse/neuron/nrn/src'
Making all in readline
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/morse/neuron/nrn/src/readline'
if /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=compile --tag=CC gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I../.. -I../../src/oc -I../../src/oc -I../../src/parallel -I../../src/nrnjava -I../../src/nrncvode -I../../src/ivos -I../../src/sundials -I../../src/nrnpython     -g -O2 -MT readline.lo -MD -MP -MF ".deps/readline.Tpo" -c -o readline.lo readline.c; \
        then mv -f ".deps/readline.Tpo" ".deps/readline.Plo"; else rm -f ".deps/readline.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
mkdir .libs
 gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I../.. -I../../src/oc -I../../src/oc -I../../src/parallel -I../../src/nrnjava -I../../src/nrncvode -I../../src/ivos -I../../src/sundials -I../../src/nrnpython -g -O2 -MT readline.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/readline.Tpo -c readline.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/readline.o
readline.c: In function 'rl_read_key':
readline.c:819: error: invalid storage class for function 'next_macro_key'
readline.c: In function 'rl_dispatch':
readline.c:951: error: invalid storage class for function 'with_macro_input'
readline.c: At top level:
readline.c:1006: error: static declaration of 'with_macro_input' follows non-static declaration
readline.c:954: error: previous implicit declaration of 'with_macro_input' was here
readline.c:1017: error: static declaration of 'next_macro_key' follows non-static declaration
readline.c:822: error: previous implicit declaration of 'next_macro_key' was here
readline.c: In function 'rl_parse_and_bind':
readline.c:5710: error: invalid storage class for function 'substring_member_of_array'
readline.c: At top level:
readline.c:5949: error: static declaration of 'substring_member_of_array' follows non-static declaration
readline.c:5839: error: previous implicit declaration of 'substring_member_of_array' was here
make[3]: *** [readline.lo] Error 1
...

Thanks to Michael for help on this.

[ttpuff]

I got the same error with readline.c

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[ted]

I got the same error with readline.c

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[tom_morse]

I found the following yum command assisted NEURON and Interviews installation from sources on Fedora Core 11 FC11

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yum install libXt-devel libext-devel readline-devel gcc-c++ libXext-devel

Before I installed the above packages when I ran ./configure --prefix=`pwd` for iv-17 there was an error meassage about not being able to make C++ executables from sources.