Isn't SuSE's Yast built on top of RPMs? If so, then
it sounds like a packaging problem of there not being
an explicit RPM dependency on libreadline.so(.3)

--sigbjorn

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alastair Reid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 12:47
> To: Sebastian Schulz; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: libreadline.so.3 ?? 
> 
> 
> 
> To add another datapoint:
> 
> Sebastian's Linux installation is quite unlike those I (and other Hugs
> developers) normally use.  For example, while answering a graphics
> library bug, I found that he has X but the include file X.h is not
> installed.  It's not installed because he didn't install the X11
> developers package (presumably) because he wasn't planning to do any
> X11 development and because redhat, suse, etc make the distinction.
> 
> The point is that we can expect this to happen more and more as Linux
> is retargetted at non-C-programmers.  Our autoconf tests are going to
> have to get more thorough (I'd guess that the current problem is
> assuming that presence of readline.h implies existence of a shared
> library) and we'll probably have to do more binary distributions.
> 
> A
> 
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