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

[Jacob Luna Lundberg <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, David Pfitzner wrote:
> 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

Ah, that explains it...

> > but if so it might be nice
> > to have the configure script look for that somehow.
> 
> Unfortunately that seems rather difficult :-(

Actually, the attached configure.in patch detects the problem and turns
off readline support when it won't work (unless you override with
--with-readline or you're cross-compiling).  It's a bit unclean because it
uses AC_TRY_RUN() but that seemed unavoidable to me.

-Jacob

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bad-readline-freeciv-1.11.4.patch
Description: patch for configure.in