[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Help with Readline

[Thue <thue@xxxxxxx>]

Den søn, 23 jul 2000 skrev David Pfitzner:
> Thue <thue@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > btw, I think I can see from the output that the problem indeed is that
> > linking with your readline 4.1 requires linking with -ltermcap as well at
> > the same time.
> > 
> > Now, assuming the above is correct, how do we get around it? The problem
> > is not in readline 2.x as far as we know, and in some 4,1's. It is in the
> > 4.1's with mandrake 7.1 (me) and suse, but dwp had no problem with his
> > debian 4.1 readline. I have one compiled from source, and it has the
> > problem too.
> 
> Well my debian system has it setup so using -lreadline also links in 
> libncurses.  (Actually this is related to the problem I had earlier: an 
> older package didn't correctly depend on the right libncurses package; 
> fixed in a newer debian package version.)
> 
> I don't know much about shared libraries, but I can do:
> 
> $ ldd /usr/lib/libreadline.so
>         libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x40028000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40066000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
> 
> which is presumably how it knows to also link libncurses.
> 
> I think it shouldn't depend on the readline version, just how it
> was packaged/compiled/installed?

Sounds rigth - So it is bugs in the respective distros!?

> > Now, how do we
> > 1) make configure link with another lib while checking for readline. (that
> > is the current problem)
> > 2) Determine which lib we should link against?
> 
> Yuck.  :-7

I am rigth now looking at the bash ./configure which should have the same
problems and seems to have found a solution to them.

-Thue