Could this be déjà vu all over again? As was the case with auto::gettext, my Configure.pl on Darwin finds a 'readline' that I installed under /sw with Fink. But my Configure.pl fails to detect a 'readline':
Determining if your platform supports readline...cc -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DHASATTRIBUTE_CONST -DHASATTRIBUTE_DEPRECATED -DHASATTRIBUTE_MALLOC -DHASATTRIBUTE_NONNULL -DHASATTRIBUTE_NORETURN -DHASATTRIBUTE_PURE -DHASATTRIBUTE_UNUSED -DHASATTRIBUTE_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT -falign-functions=16 -fvisibility=hidden -maccumulate-outgoing-args -W -Wall -Waggregate-return -Wbad-function-cast -Wc++-compat -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -Wchar-subscripts -Wcomment -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wdisabled-optimization -Wendif-labels -Wextra -Wformat -Wformat-extra-args -Wformat-nonliteral -Wformat-security -Wformat-y2k -Wimplicit -Wimplicit-function-declaration -Wimplicit-int -Wimport -Winit-self -Winline -Winvalid-pch -Wmain -Wmissing-braces -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-field-initializers -Wno-missing-format-attribute -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Wnonnull -Wpacked -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wreturn-type -Wsequence-point -Wno-shadow -Wsign-compare -Wstrict-aliasing -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -Wswitch -Wswitch-default -Wtrigraphs -Wundef -Wunknown-pragmas -Wno-unused -Wvariadic-macros -Wwrite-strings -I./include -c test.c 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 (no) .......................no. Setting Configuration Data: ( verbose => undef, ); Perhaps it can be fixed in the same way we fixed that other step? kid51