Re: Guile 1.5.4 beta ready for testing.

[tomas]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 03:05:57AM -0400, Keith Wright wrote:
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> I noticed that ./configure said something about not having readline
> installed, both on the machine that didn't work and on one that did.
> (I now have successfully compiled and installed on two out of three.)
> In fact they all have /usr/lib/libreadline.so, but I am not so sure
> about libreadline.a.  Is it wrong to have only one?
> 

As an additional possibility (maybe you're already aware of that!),
configure looks for the readline headers, which on some distros may
be packaged separately from the libs (in a package readline-devel or
somesuch). So it is well possible that you can run precompiled binaries
using readline but not compile new ones...

HTH
-- tomas