Re: Guile 1.5.4 beta ready for testing.

[Keith Wright]

> From: address@hidden

> On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 03:05:57AM -0400, Keith Wright wrote:
         <Guile 1.5.4 builds broken executable because readline...>

> > 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...

My original message was not meant as a plea for help, but as a bug
report against the ./configure;make scripts.  If readline is not
there or screwed up for some reason it should just leave it out.
Further possible causes are readline installed by python, or some
pieces of Guile old versions.

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