#14405: The libncurses hack breaks Python/readline
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Reporter: vbraun | Owner: jdemeyer
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-5.9
Component: packages: standard | Keywords:
Work issues: | Report Upstream: N/A
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#12725 symlinks libtermcap.a to libncurses.a if it doesn't exist. This
workaround allows Sage to compile, but the readline in Python is broken.
Installing the ncurses headers from the distribution (yum install ncurses-
devel) fixes this, because then the symlink is not created.
Example video: http://youtu.be/dxp1SIXbIyY
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/14405>
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