Ticket #1390 (new bug)

Opened 12 years ago

Last modified 11 years ago

Configure doesn't check for a 'curses' lib in the readline test

Reported by: carlin Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: configure Version: 1.9.0
Severity: medium Keywords:
Cc: Language:
Patch status: Platform: solaris

Description

Parrot doesn't build with readline support on OpenSolaris because readline needs tgetnum et al. from Solaris' "curses" lib. The configure script tries to fall back to "ncurses" which still fails on OSOL.

Attachments

check-for-curses-lib.patch Download (1.3 KB) - added by carlin 12 years ago.

Change History

Changed 12 years ago by carlin

Changed 11 years ago by jkeenan

  • platform set to solaris
  • component changed from none to configure
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