Re: gnomba?

[Brian Seklecki <lavalamp burghcom com>]

What's your architecture / platform?  You've probably got it easy in comparison.

If it gives you any comfort, now that it's been discussed, it will be archived in the mailing lists.  Any poor chap can go to news.gnome.org, search for the
error, find this thread, and fix their problem.

Also, did it say readline was required, in the INSTALL or README file?  I'm sure that something it depends on has a recursive dependency.

--Brian

Jack McKinney wrote:

> Big Brother tells me that Brian Seklecki wrote:
> > Readline looks to be GNU material, although if you were at your website, you wouldn't know that.  The only reference I could find was in the bash2 sources:
> >
> > $ find . -name "readline.h"
> > ./bash-2.04/lib/readline/readline.h
> >
> > If you check the FTP site, there's a readline directory:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/
> >
> > Try rolling yourself a copy of that, then re-build your app.
> >
> > Let us know,
> > --Brian
>
>     Ugh.  I downloaded readline-4.1 and installed it.  Then the recompile
> of gnoma worked.  Yet another problem with gnomba's ./configure: besides
> having a config.cache, etc., in the tarball, forcing the user to run
> 'make distclean' first, it also does not check for all needed libraries such
> as GNU readline.
>     Thanks much for all of the help.  People keep telling me to use packages
> instead, so that I won't have to worry about all of this.  I keep telling
> them that compiling is 90% of the fun.
>
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