[Techtalk] Trying to get octave to compile.

[John Clarke]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:01:17PM +1100, Sue Stones wrote:

> 'which readline" give me a lot of stuff including 
> /lib/libreadline.so.4
> /lib/libreadline.so.4.1
> /lib/libreadline.so.4.2
> /lib/libreadline.so.4.3

> configure:18017: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c -lreadline   -lncurses -lm >&5
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lreadline

-lreadline tells the linker to include libreadline.so, which you don't
have.  Try doing this:

    ln -s libreadline.so.4 /lib/libreadline.so

and run configure again.


Cheers,

John
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