Re: [Bug-gnubg] mac os 10.4 build

[Russ Allbery]

Paul Hankin <address@hidden> writes:

> As every mac owner here probably already knows, the darwinport version
> of gnubg doesn't work on Mac Os 10.4. I had a fiddle with it the other
> day, and got it to run and it works fine now for me.

> There were two problems I had to fix building it:
> 1. Readline had some functions missing (I compiled without readline
> support)

Functions like tgetent?  If so, you've been bitten by a very common
readline packaging bug.  For some reason, a lot of distributions manage to
build readline without including the dependency on ncurses.  If you just
add ncurses to the libraries, usually things start working again.

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Russ Allbery (address@hidden)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>