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A readline wrapper
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configure cannot find readline on SLES 12 #102

Closed bjoern2200 closed 5 years ago

bjoern2200 commented 5 years ago

Hello,

I downloaded the current version rlwrap-0.43 and I'm trying to compile it on a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (x86_64).

When configuring the installation I get the following:

host01:~/rlwrap-0.43 # ./configure
...
OPENPTY
configure: checking for pty ranges...
checking for tgetent... no
checking for tgetent in -ltinfo... yes
checking for readline in -lreadline... no
configure: error:
You need the GNU readline library(ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/ ) to build
this program!

According to ldconfig the library is there:

host02:~/rlwrap-0.43 # ldconfig -p | grep -i readli
        libreadline.so.6 (libc6,x86-64) => /lib64/libreadline.so.6
        libreadline.so.6 (libc6) => /lib/libreadline.so.6

What am I missing?

Best regards, Björn

hanslub42 commented 5 years ago

Did you install readline-devel? If only readline is installed then the readline shared libraries will be present on your system, but not e.g. /usr/include/readline, and the configure script will complain about that.

This is mentioned in the INSTALL file, but maybe not clearly enough:

If configure complains about missing Xyz (where Xyz can be ncurses, or readline) and you are sure that Xyz is installed on your system, consider installing Xyz-devel

bjoern2200 commented 5 years ago

Hi,

I found, that readline-devel is not included in the default SLES repositories. You need to add the "SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit" using YAST2. Now I could install readline-devel and compile rlwrap.

Many thanks.