Greetings,

I installed GNU APL on raw LinuxMint 16 and 17 and came up with the
following differences from what is stated in the README-1-prerequisits
file.  Note that since LinuxMint is built on to of Ubuntu, Ubuntu installs
should be the same.

1.  Although ./configure worked out-of-the-box without warnings, APL did
not build.  It failed.  In order to get it to build, I had to install the
following packages (which were not checked/verified by the configure
script, but are _required_):

    texinfo
    g++
    libsqlite3-dev
    (should probably install sqlite3 too)


Note that requiring sqlite3-dev is a surprise.

2.  The list of suggested packages given in README-1-prerequisits is
incorrect or out-of-date.  It should be:

    liblapack-dev
    libreadline-dev (or libreadline6-dev)  - there is no libreadline5-dev
    libncurses5-dev - there is no ncurses-dev
    libpq-dev (if PostgreSQL support is desired)

3.  I noticed that the system can't find library execinfo.  Where is that?
 (What package might that be in?  I can't find it.)

Thanks.

Blake

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