Re: [bug-inetutils] inetutils 1.4.2: useless configure check

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

Paul Jarc wrote:
> The configure script in inetutils 1.4.2 checks for readline, but (on
> my GNU/Linux system) that check always reports "no", even if readline
> is present.  This is because readline depends on ncurses, but the test
> link command uses -lreadline without -lcurses.  config.log says:
[snip]

readline doesn't necessarily require (n)curses. It can be built against the
termcap library. The readline distributed with gdb 5.3 can be configure to use
termcap or not using the --with-curses/--without-curses options.

So I guess the configure script should try -lreadline with and without
-lcurses (and -ltermcap?).

Regards,

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