libreadline not found on your system (was Re: Guile)

[Stephen Compall]

On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 16:28 +0800, Angelyn V. Dilim wrote:
> I am installing Guile which is the prerequisite of Texmacs software
> after running the command below;
>  
> # ./configure
>  
> i read a warning error saying configure WARNING:libreadline is not
> found on your system

As Guile is a prerequisite of Texmacs, readline is a prerequisite of
Guile.  You will need the readline-dev, or readline-devel, or whatever
development package.  It should be available in whatever packaging
system your operating system uses.

More information about readline is available at
http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html

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