[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Readline doesn't work under RH7

[Andy Black <blackaw@xxxxxxx>]

Hi

> It worked until I installed Redhat 7.0. But no more.
> I have readline and readline-devel packages installed, but
> Freeciv doesn't compile with readline support.
>
> checking for gethostbyname... (cached) yes
> checking for connect... (cached) yes
> checking for rl_callback_handler_install in -lreadline... (cached) no
> configure: error: Specified --with-readline but did not find library.
I'm not a linux expert, but I think the problem might be that the 
configure cache doesn't know where readline is.  The solution that 
has been mentioned other time such a problem occurs is to remove the 
cache file.  (rm config.cache).  As I said, I'm not a linux expert, 
but I hope this helps
> In config.log, there have not been written anything special for that.
>
> [tuma@paaskyniemi /tuma]$ locate libreadline
> /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4
> /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4.1
> /usr/lib/libreadline.a
> /usr/lib/libreadline.so
>
> Hmm... What's wrong?
Andy Black
Mac Port Manager