From: Roger Mason <rmason@mun.ca>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: Roger Mason <rmason@mun.ca>, 36170@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36170: configure fails on FreeBSD
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 12:33:29 -0230 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <y6536kex2v2.fsf@mun.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87imtb7oex.fsf@netris.org>
Hello Mark,
Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
>> I note also that configure claims my readline library is too old (<
>> 2.1), but I have:
>>
>> pkg info -x readline
>> readline-7.0.5
>
> Something went wrong here. The relevant check involves compiling a
> small test program that references 'rl_getc_function', which was
> apparently added in readline 2.1. Something must have gone wrong
> compiling that test program.
>
> After running ./configure, there should be a file 'config.log' which
> includes the failed test program, the compile command used to compile
> it, and the compiler error messages. Can you search for 'readline' in
> that file and see what went wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
config.log says:
configure:54907: cc -std=gnu11 -o conftest -I/usr/local/include -g -O2
-I/usr/local/include conftest.c -lreadline -lncurses -lcrypt -lm >&5
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lreadline
So the error message is a bit misleading.
Cheers,
Roger
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-12 15:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-11 11:43 bug#36170: configure fails on FreeBSD Roger Mason
2019-06-11 22:22 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-06-12 15:03 ` Roger Mason [this message]
2019-06-12 15:11 ` Roger Mason
2019-06-11 22:41 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-06-12 14:52 ` Roger Mason
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