[syslinux] tftp-hpa and readline

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu Jan 30 18:17:40 PST 2003


Martin Jackson wrote:
> I have tried compiling tftp-hpa on Red Hat 7.3, 8.0, and Debian
> testing/unstable...I haven't been able to get readline to link on any of
> them, regardless of passing --with-readline.
> 
> Likewise, I am having trouble getting regex maps to compile on Debian
> testing/unstable (though it works on Red Hat).
> 
> Can anyone give me some pointers?
> 
> I suspect something with autoconf, though I also saw something about
> possible licensing issues on one of the Debian lists.
> 

OK, the readline problem I've found; it's a problem with configure.in;
you should be able to work around it by:

LIBS='-ltermcap' ./configure

I'll have a fix in the next release.

	-hpa





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