Readline error lacks details

[leto]

configure: error: CGDB requires GNU readline 5.1 or greater to link.
  If you used --with-readline instead of using the system readline library,
  make sure to set the correct readline library on the linker search path
  via LD_LIBRARY_PATH or some other facility.

It would be nice if this error included the version of readline detected (I think I have 6.2.4 installed), as well as some useful URLs or commands to install it.

[brasko]

On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 02:09:17AM -0700, leto wrote:

configure: error: CGDB requires GNU readline 5.1 or greater to link.
  If you used --with-readline instead of using the system readline library,
  make sure to set the correct readline library on the linker search path
  via LD_LIBRARY_PATH or some other facility.

It would be nice if this error included the version of readline detected (I think I have 6.2.4 installed), as well as some useful URLs or commands to install it.

You might need to install readline-dev.

Look in config.log for debug information, in particular,
configure:5660: checking version of installed readline library
...
configure:5761: result: 6.2

Bob Rossi

[mmueller]

If you are on a Mac with homebrew, you might need to:

./configure --with-readline=/usr/local/Cellar/readline/6.2.4

or something along those lines. That's what I had to do to build cgdb on osx.

[mmueller]

I don't think this really needs improvement. If you are a gdb user, you probably know how to check your readline version and install a new one.

[wujinggrt]

This problem occurs when I execute ./autogen.sh on Ubuntu 19.04, sovling it by:

$ sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev.

Then, do as http://cgdb.github.io suggests.

[owenstake]

In centos, do this

yum install readline-devel