[Tutor] readline recompile fails

Kalle Svensson kalle@gnupung.net
Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:37:12 +0200


Sez Jonathan Soons:
> I cannot make Python2.0 recompile with readline enabled in Modules/Setup. I
> have installed GNU readline in /usr/local/lib (same place as tcl and tk
> libs).
> I am on a SPARC with Solaris7.
> gcc2.8.0.

How does it fail?  Could you post an error message, and perhaps the relevant
part of Setup?

> Do I need ncurses also? The Setup file seems to say this is optional.

ncurses is optional.

Peace,
  Kalle
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