From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: Calls to the libreadline.so fail Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Excerpeted from the standard GNU "configure": rltest.c: /* test of call to readline */ char readline (); int main () { readline (); ; return 0; } gcc -lreadline rltest.c Actual Results: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat- linux/2.96/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetnum' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgoto' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetflag' etc. Expected Results: [no error] Additional info: You can get around this problem by explicitly adding "-lcurses" to the load list. This was apparently not a problem in 6.2, but is a problem in 7.1 and 7.2.
Anyone home???
That's a broken configure test.