With lftp4.8.4, readline 7.0:
After compiling readline locally on a server with no admin rights to the system, using --prefix=$HOME, I try to compile lftp with ./configure --prefix=$HOME --with-readline=$HOME and it fails with error:
"checking for Readline headers in $HOME/include/readline... not found
checking for Readline... no
configure: error: cannot find readline library, install readline-devel package"
while the readline.h is located in the $HOME/include.
After tweaking options and checking environment variables for quite a bit, I found out that it required to export manually this specific environment variable: CPPFLAGS=-I$HOME/include
I don't know if this is supposed to be obvious, but as an end-user knowing not much more than the basics of C/C++ and Unix systems, I found it to be a long process in order to just compile locally lftp with readline just compiled and located in an obvious directory.
I wonder if some steps could maybe be simplified for the basic end-user:
1/ looking in --prefix for readline when one does not use --with-readline but only --prefix (it is a non-optional dependency after all?),
2/ updating automatically C/C++ environments variables with the content of --with-readline or --prefix if the C compile check fails within the configure? or at least print the message to the console for the user to try to do so
I hope this feedback helps. I also want to say that lftp is a wonderful command line transfer program, many thanks and bravo!
With lftp4.8.4, readline 7.0: After compiling readline locally on a server with no admin rights to the system, using --prefix=$HOME, I try to compile lftp with ./configure --prefix=$HOME --with-readline=$HOME and it fails with error: "checking for Readline headers in $HOME/include/readline... not found checking for Readline... no configure: error: cannot find readline library, install readline-devel package" while the readline.h is located in the $HOME/include.
After tweaking options and checking environment variables for quite a bit, I found out that it required to export manually this specific environment variable: CPPFLAGS=-I$HOME/include
I don't know if this is supposed to be obvious, but as an end-user knowing not much more than the basics of C/C++ and Unix systems, I found it to be a long process in order to just compile locally lftp with readline just compiled and located in an obvious directory.
I wonder if some steps could maybe be simplified for the basic end-user: 1/ looking in --prefix for readline when one does not use --with-readline but only --prefix (it is a non-optional dependency after all?), 2/ updating automatically C/C++ environments variables with the content of --with-readline or --prefix if the C compile check fails within the configure? or at least print the message to the console for the user to try to do so
I hope this feedback helps. I also want to say that lftp is a wonderful command line transfer program, many thanks and bravo!