Re: [Chicken-users] installing breadline Was: is the readline egg dead?

[Erik Falor]

On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 05:29:44PM +0100, Vasilij Schneidermann wrote:
> Hello Marco,
> 
> > Thanks!  I  am trying breadline, but,  after a number of  other eggs are
> > installed  I get  this  error,  most likely  because  I  still have  GNU
> > Readline 6.3  on my Slackware64  14.2 installation (which is  the latest
> > Slackware, sigh!):

I can confirm that this is true on Slackware 14.2.

> Thanks for the bug report.  I picked a Slackware64 14.1 Docker image,
> installed C5 into it and managed reproducing your issue.  After messing
> around a lot with the system I eventually discovered the reason for this
> error message, on Slackware it's expected that interactive programs link
> against ncurses (which their readline package doesn't, unlike mine).

FWIW, breadline builds and loads flawlessly on the in-development
version of Slackware.

> I've released a new version of the package now that explicitly links against
> ncurses.  In case you don't want to wait for a day or so for it to
> appear in the coop, execute the following:
> 
>     git clone https://github.com/wasamasa/breadline
>     cd breadline
>     chicken-install

This is great!  I can confirm that this new version also works well on
Slackware-current.


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Erik Falor
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