[aur-general] yafc doesn't compile

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:52:39 +0200
Henning Garus <henning.garus at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Henning
> Garus<henning.garus at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Henning
> > Garus<henning.garus at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Dieter Plaetinck<dieter at plaetinck.be> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I guess not. didn't know that was needed.
> >>> just too bad we don't have readline anymore now.  Guess we'll have to wait until upstream makes it work with the new readline.
> >>
> >> That could take some time, last release was 2005. I have attached a
> >> patch which seems to fix the compile issues with readline6. This is
> >> more or less the result of some sed lines, so please don't start
> >> shouting at me if it breakes your system.
> >>
> >>  Henning
> >>
> 
> Ok forget about this, after donvla stated on AUR that it works with
> readline-6-00, I looked at the differences between readline-6-00 and
> readline-6-003, the latter puts libreadline.a into /usr/lib instead of
> /lib. It seems when yafc looks for readline it starts in /usr/lib and
> uses libreadline.a which exports xmalloc and which leads to compile
> errors.
> 
> If you run configure --with-readline-lib=/lib it uses libreadline.so
> and compiles.

Allright! I can confirm that this works. happy yafcing !

dieter