[Freeciv-Dev] Re: readline 4.2

[Erik Sigra <sigra@xxxxxxx>]

Monday 30 April 2001 12:12 skrev Greg Wooledge:
> Erik Sigra (sigra@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Note that it was actually not only the order that was different between
> > my 2 variants.
>
> Ah... but if you're using Linux, curses is probably a symlink to ncurses
> anyway.

Yes, that is correct.

> > checking for rl_completion_matches in -lreadline... (cached) no
> > configure: error: Specified --with-readline but did not find library.
>
> Note the "(cached)" there.  You need to rm config.cache first.

OK. This is not the 1st time config.cache causes me problems :-(, more like 
the 1,000,000th. But now it works.