Re: [bug-gawk] gawk can't find libreadline when cross compiling

[Christer Solskogen]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 7:46 AM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Thanks for the mail.
>
> Readline is a special case and cross-compiling doesn't work; the configure
> script creates an executable and runs it to see if things work as needed.
>

Okay. I dont't really see any output of what *really* fails.

> You can fix this in m4/readline.m4 and rebuild configure; another option
> is to submit a patch to that file such that if cross compiling and the
> libraries are there, sets things to true.
>
> If you can't do this and don't mind trying out patches, I can try to
> cobble something together and work with you offline to test it out.
>

I don't know how to fix readline.m4, but I'll be more that happy to
test some patches if you got some.

-- 
chs