On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, James Keenan via RT wrote:
> On Thu Apr 17 10:51:10 2008, ambs wrote:
> > A solution was implemented at revision 27020.
> > They might be cases where this doesn't work. (hope not)
>
> This is what I got on Linux at r27021:
>
> Determining if your platform supports readline...
> [successful cc -c omitted ]
> cc -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-E test.o -o test -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt
> -lutil -lpthread -lrt -lreadline
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lreadline
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> But whenever I say 'sudo apt-get install libreadline5', I'm told the
> package is up-to-date.
Debian-derived systems usually offer two packages: A run-time-only
library and a development library. libreadline5 is the run-time-only
version. You probably need to do
sudo apt-get install libreadline5-dev
(According to the notes in perl5's hints/linux.sh, Red Hat uses a similar
naming convention.)
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Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
