Re: [Freeipmi-devel] readline install not detected by freeIPMI

[Albert Chu]

> We considered exiting configure unsuccessfully in a condition such as
> yours, but I thought it wouldn't actually help any, just give the 
> errora bit earlier in the process.  Do you agree or disagree?

I've always had a preference for exiting ./configure when a mandatory
library is required but not found.  I usually add an AC_MSG_ERROR() to
the fourth parameter of AC_CHECK_LIB().

Al

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Albert Chu
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----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Zimmerman <address@hidden>
Date: Tuesday, November 2, 2004 11:58 am
Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-devel] readline install not detected by freeIPMI

> 
> Andrew> The machine is running VMWare ESX 2.0, which is based on a 
> 2.4.9Andrew> kernel.  Also, I'm not super-adept in Linux, though I 
> muckAndrew> around OK, but I'm pretty sure the steps I took were
> Andrew> straightforward.  Personally, I'm curious about the path the
> Andrew> compiler uses to find the readline library, as there's a
> Andrew> readline library in /usr/lib and my install of readline was
> Andrew> placed in /usr/local/lib.
> 
> 1/ You need to install the _development_ side of readline: the 
> header file
> (should be in /usr/*/include/readline.h) and the link-time library
> (/usr/*/lib/libreadline.so).  Do you have both of these?
> 
> 2/ If there was an existing installation in /usr, why install 
> another one
> in /usr/local?  They _can_ conflict when used for development.
> 
> We considered exiting configure unsuccessfully in a condition such as
> yours, but I thought it wouldn't actually help any, just give the 
> errora bit earlier in the process.  Do you agree or disagree?
> 
> Thanks, Ian
> 
> 
> 
> 
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