Thanks Gilbert,
I just put your patch into the main development branch so it
ought to turn up in any future releases.
Thanks very much!
Alastair
Gilbert Laycock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> I am building hugs 1.4 (June 1998) on a Linux/Debian 2.0 system.
>
> In order to use --with-readline I need to have termcap installed. I
> want to use the ncurses library instead of termcap, since it provides
> termcap emulation, and this saves me from having to install the
> real termcap too.
>
> Here is a patch to configure.in that, I think, checks for the presence
> of ncurses, then for termcap and uses whichever it finds first. I
> don't think it changes the behaviour in other cases (but this is the
> first time I've played with autoconf and I haven't tried it out on any
> other systems):