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Started by Matt Mackenzieover 23 years ago2 messagesbugs
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#1Matt Mackenzie
mmackenzie@infinityhealthcare.com

Hi,

Thank You for such a great product. I had some problems with the
build, the configue script wasn't picking up the GNU readline library(I
compiled from source). I went online and saw many people were having the
same issue as I did. I looked @ the configure script and realised my
problem was the lack of ncurses libs on my machine. I would respectfuly
request a more informative readline not found. Perhaps the fix is just
to place this in the readline part of the documentation.

Debian/GNU(woody) [testing]
2.4.19
bash

Thank You,
Matt Mackenzie

#2Peter Eisentraut
peter_e@gmx.net
In reply to: Matt Mackenzie (#1)
Re: configure

Matt Mackenzie writes:

I looked @ the configure script and realised my problem was the lack of
ncurses libs on my machine. I would respectfuly request a more
informative readline not found. Perhaps the fix is just to place this in
the readline part of the documentation.

I think it would be tricky to determine that it is in fact the missing
curses library that is making things fail. You should probably look at
fixing your operating system's package management system which let you
create a broken readline installation in the first place.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net