petdance/scratch — Issue #946: Configure doesn't check for a 'curses' lib in the readline test
Author: petdance
Created: 2011-11-14 06:14:06+00:00
State: open
Labels: bug, configure, Pri-normal, Sev-medium

Parrot doesn't build with readline support on OpenSolaris because readline needs tgetnum et al. from Solaris' "curses" lib. The configure script tries to fall back to "ncurses" which still fails on OSOL.

Originally http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/1390 by carlin