Re: readline missing on linux?

Just a question --- if you link readline against -ltermcap when the
library is created, you don't need to add -ltermcap when you link apps
to readline, right?  You somehow bind the dependency in to the shared
library, right?

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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > It appears your readline needs -ltermcap, -lterminfo, or -lcurses to
> > link properly.  I think this happens when the readline library is not
> > linked against those when it is created.
>
> On Red Hat 8.0, readline depends on -ltermcap.  I would imagine the same
> is true on RH9, but haven't got it installed personally.
>
> If you don't have termcap (and possibly termcap-devel, not sure if
> that's needed) then configure should detect the missing dependency.
> Maybe it did --- you didn't show us enough of config.log to see what
> happened.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>

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