#56: Dependency on editline C library not checked by ./configure
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Reporter: anonymous (solrize) | Owner: dons
Type: defect | Status: reopened
Priority: major | Milestone: 2009.4.0
Component: Generic source tarball | Resolution:
Keywords: editline |
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Comment (by Araneidae):
Well, this defect remains ... and there's a further defect (let me know if
I should raise this separately):
On Ubuntu 9.10 I have libeditline-dev installed, but the only header file
which is installed is /usr/include/editline.h (defining readline() and
add_history()), whereas the make for haskell-platform is looking for
editline/editline.h -- which means, of course, it fails to find it.
I've tried adding editline.h to the AC_CHECK_HEADERS list (line 47,
packages/editline-0.2.1.0/configure.ac) and running autoconf, but
something isn't right: my resulting ./configure is quite broken. Maybe my
autoconf (version 2.64) or one of its macros is broken?
To be more specific, ./configure in packages/editline-0.2.1.0 fails with
message:
checking for tputs in -lncurses... ./configure: line 2853: syntax
error near unexpected token `('
./configure: line 2853: `case "(($ac_try" in'
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