configure can't find readline -- but it's there!
On Dec 29, 2011, at 7:14 PM, Cable, Sam B Civ USAF AFMC AFRL/RVBXI wrote:
Am trying to install 2.14.0 on a CentOS system. The configure script apparently can't find something to do with the readline library: Configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not available Yes, I know I need readline 4.2 or later. "yum" assures me that rev 5.1 is already installed. And I know I need to provide configuration flags if it is in a non-system directory, but such is not the case. readline was put in with a standard OS installation. And I know that I need the full developer package, as opposed to the user only versions, but the heck if I can find any such separate package. "yum" doesn't know anything about it. So, in short, I have a completely standard install of readline, as far as I can tell, but the configure script can't find it. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.
Hi, The typical solution would be to install the readline-devel RPM, which is where the header files, etc. would be available. So as root: yum install readline-devel or if you have sudo enabled: sudo yum install readline-devel HTH, Marc Schwartz