[Freeciv-Dev] Re: readline 4.2

[Thue <thue@xxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 29 April 2001 23:33, Erik Sigra wrote:
> Sunday 29 April 2001 23:09 skrev du:
> > 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.
>
> Thanks. I modified configure.in and it worked. The civserver command line
> is so much nicer now!

Do try the tab completion! Just hit tab at any time, and it should guess 
what you want. I like that feature very much :)

-Thue