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.) -- Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]