[Freehoo-users] one configure problem resolved, for me

[John Kraft]

hello - I had been stuck trying to build freehoo, at a point that at 
least one other person on the list mentioned.  the configure output 
would exit at ...

[...]
checking for gh_enter in -lguile... yes
checking for yahoo_send_im in -lyahoo2... yes
checking for tgoto in -ltermcap... yes
checking for readline in -lreadline... no
%

with no error, but no Makefile.  The readline library on my system 
(gentoo) apparently requires either -lncurses or -ltermcap for 
successful linking, and the following command cleared it up for me.

% LDFLAGS=-lncurses ./configure --prefix=/usr/local

it's probably overkill, but was easy and worked for me.  hope this 
helps someone else.

btw- now that I've got it working, freehoo is great!  I find that I 
have a different personality typing in it tho.  strange throwback to 
old mud days or something.
-- 
John Kraft
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