[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Startup readline segfault (PR#491)

[David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 4 Aug 2000 Jacob Luna Lundberg <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On my redhat box civserver seems fine with readline.  However, on my corel
> linux (heh) box readline is detected but if the server is compiled to use
> it there's a segfault during startup.  I'm not sure this is a freeciv bug;
> it might be an ``upgrade your readline'' bug, 

This looks like the same problem I had with Debian (sensible since
Corel is Debian-based), and the answer was actually "upgrade your
ncurses-dev pacakge", or similar.   See:
  http://arch.freeciv.org/freeciv-dev-200007/msg00280.html

(The readline-dev 2.1-12 package fails to depend on the correct 
ncurses-dev package; more recent readline-dev packages fix this, 
so "upgrade libreadline" should also help, indirectly.)

> but if so it might be nice
> to have the configure script look for that somehow.

Unfortunately that seems rather difficult :-(

Regards,
-- David