Thread: install; readline error with 7.3.4

On my RH 9.0 linux system when ./configuring 7.3.4 I get an error about
not finding the readline libs, however both the readline and
readline-devel rpms are installed:

# rpm -qa | grep readline
readline-4.3-5
readline-devel-4.3-5

What library/rpm am I missing?

The config.log file has this to say:

configure:5786: result: no
configure:5800: checking for readline
configure:5837: gcc -o conftest -O2     conftest.c -lreadline -lcrypt
-lresolv -lnsl -ldl -lm -lbsd  >&5
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/../../../libreadline.so:
undefined reference to `tgetnum'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/../../../libreadline.so:
undefined reference to `tgoto'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/../../../libreadline.so:
undefined reference to `tgetflag'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/../../../libreadline.so:
undefined reference to `BC'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/../../../libreadline.so:
undefined reference to `tputs'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/../../../libreadline.so:
undefined reference to `PC'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/../../../libreadline.so:
undefined reference to `tgetent'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/../../../libreadline.so:
undefined reference to `UP'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/../../../libreadline.so:
undefined reference to `tgetstr'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Thanks,

Jean-Christian Imbeault

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 05:34:32PM +0900, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:
> On my RH 9.0 linux system when ./configuring 7.3.4 I get an error about
> not finding the readline libs, however both the readline and
> readline-devel rpms are installed:

On some linux redhat-ish distros I think you also need ncurses-devel
and/or termcap-devel for configure to find readline capabilities.

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