Oh, you'll either need to install the tools needed to build nmh (see the MACHINES file), or download http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/nmh/nmh-1.7.1.tar.gz and build from that.
David On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 2:28 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > David Levine <[email protected]> writes: > >Norm writes: > > > >> comp: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.6: cannot > ope= > >n shared object file: No such file or directory > >> > >> What I am doing wrong? > > > >Nothing. Either the nmh package for the version of Ubuntu you're using > >needs to be rebuilt, or you need to install a libreadline6 package. I > >took a quick look and didn't find one, but I don't use Ubuntu. > > > >In the meantime, if you want to build nmh yourself from scratch, run: > > > >wget http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nmh.git/plain/build_nmh && > >sh build_nmh -iv > > > >Respond to the prompts, the first is the install directory. The rest > >probably have good defaults. > > > > I would prefer that. It gives me more control over where files go and > it would allow me to keep up with intermediate nmh versions. > > I tried it. I get a "build failed". I am attaching the build log. > > Norman Shapiro >
