Re: [Chicken-users] installing breadline Was: is the readline egg dead?

[Marco Maggi]

Vasilij Schneidermann wrote:

> Hello Marco,

>> Thanks!  I  am trying breadline, but,  after a number of  other eggs are
>> installed  I get  this  error,  most likely  because  I  still have  GNU
>> Readline 6.3  on my Slackware64  14.2 installation (which is  the latest
>> Slackware, sigh!):

> Thanks for the bug report.  I picked a Slackware64 14.1 Docker image,
> installed C5 into it and managed reproducing your issue.  After messing
> around a lot with the system I eventually discovered the reason for this
> error message, on Slackware it's expected that interactive programs link
> against ncurses (which their readline package doesn't, unlike mine).

> I've released a new version of the package now that explicitly links against
> ncurses.  In case you don't want to wait for a day or so for it to
> appear in the coop, execute the following:

>     git clone https://github.com/wasamasa/breadline
>     cd breadline
>     chicken-install

It works, thanks!
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Marco Maggi