On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us> writes:
>> Ugh. I do think that readline 5.0 itself has a minor bug in that ldd
>> on libreadline.so does not show a dependency on the curses library,
>> even though it is obviously required. This means that the linkage of
>> libreadline.so is incomplete.
>
> That's fairly standard I fear. Certainly libreadline is like that on
> my Fedora machine (and it doesn't stop our configure script from getting
> it right).
>
> It may be that the presence of both libedit and libreadline is what's
> messing things up. I seem to recall fixing configure to deal with that
> [ digs in logs ... ] oh, here we go:
That certainly seems like a reasonable conclusion. I would be
perfectly happy to use libedit rather than libreadline, but I wrongly
assumed that without it command line editing would not function.
Thanks for identifying the cause of the problem.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
