[Freeciv-Dev] Re: 1/2 readline patch

[David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Mallatt wrote:
> At 2000/07/14 01:55 , David Pfitzner wrote:

> >This configures fine (finds readline once I have the right packages
> >installed), and compiles, but then core dumps when I try to run!
> >(And sometimes leaves the terminal in a strange state, but
> >'stty sane' seems to fix.)
> 
> Damn.  Very depressing.
> 
> >Debian (mainly slink/2.1) 
> >readline 2.1 (debian libreadlineg2_2.1-12 and libreadlineg2-dev_2.1-12)
> >(uses libncurses4 4.2-3)
> [snip]
> >I could try upgrading the packages involved to latest versions, 
> >but haven't yet.
> 
> Mine is an old Red Hat 5.0.  It uses readline-2.1-5 (according to rpm).
> 
> This looks very mysterious.  I'll have to think about it a bit...

Sorry, turns out it was a problem with my system.  (Started to
suspect this when the example readline progs which came with my 
libreadline failed the same way.)  In the course of upgrading
some packages I realized I had an inappropriate ncurses-dev 
package installed, somehow mucking things up.  The patch works 
ok for me now!

-- David