Compiling Octave from sources: readline...

[Matthias Brennwald]

Dear all

I'd like to compile the current Octave sources from CVS on Linux (Debian
4.0 Etch stable on an Dell Laptop). I called ./autogen.sh to create the
configure script, which worked fine. I then called ./configure, which gave
the follwoing error:

configure: WARNING: I couldn't find -ltermcap, -lterminfo, -lncurses,
-lcurses, or -ltermlib!
checking for rl_set_keyboard_input_timeout in -lreadline... no
configure: WARNING: I need GNU Readline 4.2 or later
configure: error: this is fatal unless you specify --disable-readline

apt-get tells me that I have the newest version of libreadline:
sudo apt-get install libreadline5
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
libreadline5 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Any ideas or hints on how to solve this readline problem?

Matthias