Readline egg will not build without libtermcap

[ewfalor]

Running chicken-install readline fails with the following error message:

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installing readline: ...
changing current directory to /tmp/chicken-install-216.tmp/readline

/usr/local/stow/chicken-4.5.0/bin/csi -bnq -setup-mode -e "(require-library setup-api)" -e "(import setup-api)" -e "(extension-name-and-version '(\"readline\" \"\"))" /tmp/chicken-install-216.tmp/readline/readline.setup
/usr/local/stow/chicken-4.5.0/bin/csc -feature compiling-extension -setup-mode -s -o rlu-test rl-usable-test.scm -lreadline -lhistory -ltermcap

/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -ltermcap
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Error: shell command terminated with non-zero exit status 256: gcc rlu-test.o -o rlu-test -shared -lreadline -lhistory -ltermcap -L"/usr/local/stow/chicken-4.5.0/lib" -Wl,-R"/usr/local/stow/chicken-4.5.0/lib" -lchicken -lm -ldl

shell command failed with nonzero exit status 256:

/usr/local/stow/chicken-4.5.0/bin/csc -feature compiling-extension -setup-mode -s -o rlu-test rl-usable-test.scm -lreadline -lhistory -ltermcap

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It appears that the problem is with the check-rllibs syntax in readline.setup. Instead of trying the next combination of -l flags, it completely bails out.

[felix winkelmann]

Thanks for reporting this. The setup script was indeed incorrect and has been fixed (hopefully) in r18216. A new version has been tagged and should be available now.
Should there still be problems, please reopen the ticket.

[ewfalor]

There is still a problem with the setup script. rl-extralib is now a string value, not a list. The rest of the setup script needs to be modified to treat it as a string. The attached patch does so.

[felix winkelmann]

Argh.

See r18220. Sorry for the dumb mistake.

[felix winkelmann]

Milestone 4.6.0 deleted