release] Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <20140627124236.793bc975.robby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Hi Robby, On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:42:36PM -0500, Robby Workman wrote: > Hi Pablo, > > I get this error after configure: > > checking for readline in -lreadline... no > configure: error: No suitable version of libreadline found > > It appears that you're depending on distro-specific enhancements to > readline, specifically that Fedora explicitly links libtinfo, Arch > explicitly links ncurses, etcetera, while according to upstream > readline, this should not occur -- from INSTALL file in readline: > > The readline `configure' recognizes a single `--with-PACKAGE' option: > > `--with-curses' > This tells readline that it can find the termcap library functions > (tgetent, et al.) in the curses library, rather than a separate > termcap library. Readline uses the termcap functions, but does not > link with the termcap or curses library itself, allowing applications > which link with readline the to choose an appropriate library. > This option tells readline to link the example programs with the > curses library rather than libtermcap. > > I think this will be useful: > https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/ax_lib_readline.html Thanks for the detailed report. Would you send us a patch that you can test in your fedora setup? I would appreciate it. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
