[Freetalk-dev] Problems with building freetalk on Ubuntu 8.10

[Kamaleshwar Morjal]

Hello!
I am a keen freetalk user and I love the software. I was
just trying to build the release 3.2 while i encountered
the following problem. I am sorry for the lack of understanding
but I am no programmer and therefore this is beyond me.

Any pointers in order to sort this out would be greatly
appreciated.
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$ configure --prefix=/home/user/opt/freetalk/
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking for g++... g++
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for library containing tgetent... -lncurses
checking for readline in -lreadline... no
configure: error: ERROR! readline not found...
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The script aborts at this point.

Also, I am using freetalk 3.1 installed from the Ubuntu repos
using "apt-get install" and I have observed that
it crashes a lot. I am generally on a very slow dial-up
connection and freetalk often crashes on an attempt to
reconnect after it drops the connection. I will post the
backtrace and whatever information is displayed on the
terminal if you may so require. For now, I just need to make
sure this is right forum to post this information.

Keenly awaiting your response. I am very fond of this neat
little program :)

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Thanks and regards
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(कमलेश्वर मोरजाल)
Cell: +91-992-019-3637

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