[Bug-readline] Readline 6.1 Build Failure -- static libraries on 32-bit Ubuntu 9.10

[Faenza, Michael E]

 

Hello,

 

I’ve attempted to build Readline 6.1 on a 32-bit installation of Ubuntu 9.10.  I cannot seem to build a static library correctly, but do seem to build a shared library correctly.

 

1.       If I build Readline without --enable-shared/--disable-shared and --enable-static/--disable-static options on the command line, the build fails.

2.       If I build Readline with --disable-shared and --enable-static options on the command line, the build fails.

3.       If I build Readline with --enable-shared and --disable-static options on the command line, the build succeeds.

 

This behavior seems really odd as I have to believe most people have built and tested Readline without any of the above options as in #1.

 

On failure, make install fails with several “cannot stat” failures of files such as excallback.c, fileman.c, and histexamp.c (all from Readline examples?).

 

Thank you,

Michael Faenza