[Freeciv-Dev] Re: readline 4.2

[Greg Wooledge <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Erik Sigra (sigra@xxxxxxx) wrote:

> Thanks. I modified configure.in and it worked. The civserver command line is 
> so much nicer now! I replaced "-lreadline" with "-lncurses -lreadline" and 
> then with "-lreadline -lcurses". Both variants worked.

That's linker dependent.  The GNU ld doesn't care about the order in which
libraries appear, but older versions of Unix ld do.

> Since you seem to know 
> this stuff, could you please make a patch for configure.in?

Well, here's a rough one.  It might not handle the non-GNU ld cases
properly, or the non-ncurses cases (in other words, I didn't test it
on anything but my Debian system).  But it might be useful as the basis
for a better patch....

I ripped some of the termcap detection code from LAME, which is GPL.
So there shouldn't be any license problems.

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