Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Just a question --- if you link readline against -ltermcap when the
> library is created, you don't need to add -ltermcap when you link apps
> to readline, right? You somehow bind the dependency in to the shared
> library, right?
It could be done that way, but apparently is not on many platforms.
What configure is testing for is to see whether "-lreadline" links
successfully without a following "-ltermcap". It doesn't.
regards, tom lane