Re: Order of checking for readline support libraries

On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 11:33:11AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Currently, configure checks for the readline support packages in the
> order
>     -ltermcap -lncurses -lcurses
> I would like to change this to
>     -lncurses -ltermcap -lcurses
> The reason is that Fedora is deprecating termcap and planning to remove
> it (see attached).  Comments?  Anyone know of a platform this would
> produce bad results on?

On debian libtermcap.so is a symlink to libncurses.so, so it will
change the link line but other than that have no effect.

The real termcap was deprecated in debian sometime around the libc6
transition.

Have a nice day,
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