[Freeciv-Dev] Re: readline 4.2

[Greg Wooledge <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thue (thue@xxxxxxx) wrote:

> Again: I think the bug is that curses is not listed as a dynamic load 
> dependesy. The nicest solution would still be to make people install readline 
> correctly, possibly by giving fixes to the upstream maintainers.

Just for the record, I disagree that this "should" be fixed by the
libreadline maintainers or the Linux distributions.  The whole *point*
of autoconf is to detect slightly weird system configurations and
compensate for them.

Have autoconf try to link with "-lreadline".  If that fails, try
"-lreadline -lncurses".  If that fails, try "-lreadline -lcurses".  If
that fails, try "-lreadline -ltermlib".  That's really all it takes.

If there's anyone who has ncurses and/or readline installed in a
nonstandard location, then have a "--with-readline=DIR" flag, or even
a "--with-curses=DIR".

-- 
Greg Wooledge                  |   "Truth belongs to everybody."
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