Re: Configure suggestion

[Karim BELABAS <Karim.Belabas@math.u-psud.fr>]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Igor Schein wrote:
> when I try to build 64bit binary on Solaris, it finds 32bit readline
> library and subsequently fails to build.  I think of 3 possible
> solutions, not mutually exclusive:
>
> 1) have Configure actually link conftest.c against libreadline to
> make sure it's working
> 2) add gnu-like --with-readline and --without-readline flags
> 3) go 1 step further and be able to specify
> --with-readline=/alternative/path.

Forgot to reply to the list, sorry. Solution 3) [ autoconf semantics ]
is now available in 2.2.5 for 'gmp' and 'readline' (see Configure --help and
doc/INSTALL.dvi).

Cheers,

    Karim.
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