Re: [Bug-readline] Restore a configure test for curses/termcap/termlib

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/4/11 6:18 PM, Scott Garman wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm a developer with the Yocto Project - a framework and build system for
> generating embedded Linux images (yoctoproject.org).
> 
> We find that without the attached patch, readline fails to link against
> termcap, causing a build failure.

Hi.

Do you mean that simply creating the readline shared library fails if
there are unresolved references?  Or that linking a separate program
against readline without also linking against termcap/curses/ncurses
fails?

The intent that an appliation run a configure test like that found in
bash (BASH_CHECK_LIB_TERMCAP) and link against the appropriate library.
The check appears in readline's configure script so the example programs
will link.

Chet
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