Re: Configure fails to find readline libraries

Hi.. thanks.

Here's a printout from my find command:

/usr/local/include/readline
/usr/local/include/readline/readline.h

And the plot thickens. Here is where it errors out and then loops
endlessly until it quits:
(There are symbolic links from libreadline.so to libreadline.so.6.0)

configure:6240: $? = 0
configure:6243: test -s conftest
configure:6246: $? = 0
configure:6316: result: none required
configure:6337: checking for -lreadline
configure:6364: gcc -o conftest -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/
include/readline -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -
Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing -
fwrapv -D_GNU_SOURCE -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/
readline -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib conftest.c -lreadline -
lcrypt -ldl -lm >&5
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `PC'
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetflag'
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetent'
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `UP'
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tputs'
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgoto'
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetnum'
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `BC'
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetstr'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:6370: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h. */

Jeffrey Trimble
System LIbrarian
William F. Maag Library
Youngstown State University
330.941.2483 (Office)
jtrimble(at)cc(dot)ysu(dot)edu
http://www.maag.ysu.edu
http://digital.maag.ysu.edu

On May 19, 2009, at 7:10 PM, Scott Mead wrote:

> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Jeffrey Trimble
> <jtrimble(at)cc(dot)ysu(dot)edu> wrote:
> Thanks, but that didn't work. Here's the complete error result from
> that:
>
> checking for -lreadline... no
> checking for -ledit... no
> configure: error: readline library not found
> If you have readline already installed, see config.log for details
> on the
> failure. It is possible the compiler isn't looking in the proper
> directory.
> Use --without-readline to disable readline support.
>
> Are you *sure* that readline is installed in those directories
>
> Have you checked config.log to see the actual error message from
> the linker?
>
> --Scott