Re: specifying readline location & ignoring libdir...?

[L A Walsh]

Chet Ramey wrote:
> It's likely that these have been problems for a long time; the code to
> warn about unknown variable names is new in readline-7.0.
>   
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   Ah... didn't know that.  That's likely all or most of
those.

> You can't link bash-4.4 against any readline version except 7.0;
>   
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   I suspected as much, which makes these settings all the
more important ... these 2 things:


   1) How is the location for readline-7.0 specified?

   and ... 2) why is the value passed to configure not used
when linking?

   I think those 2 have been plaguing me for a while (i.e.
have seen similar errors before, depending on options -- likely because
it was linking with the wrong version of readline and not the one
specified...

Thanks,
linda