[aur-general] yafc doesn't compile

[Allan McRae]

Henning Garus 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.
>   

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15266

Allan