On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 10:23, Fahad G. wrote: > I checked and I don't have 'readline' installed. --without-readline did the > trick, but shouldn't this be handled automatically?
This is intentional -- what's wrong with stopping? ISTM that stopping and letting the user know what went wrong is probably better than just continuing: many users will install readline when they discover it isn't installed, and it is easy to miss a warning emitted by "configure" as its output flies past. > Moreover, there's no 'gmake' in Mac OS X, and it uses 'make' instead. The > installation guide should mention this as well. The docs say: "(On some systems GNU make is the default tool with the name make.)" -Neil ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly