Readline no longer loads the shared library under 64-bit Slackware Linux 14.1 about perl6-readline

[dmaestro]

The solution (on my system) was to build the version 6 library from source:

./configure LDFLAGS=-lncurses
make && make install

This produced an additional shared library on my system, and the original system library (version 5) was left alone. BTW, I tried a lot of configure flags (trying to be too specific, I guess) before I found the formula above that worked ;-)

The missings symbols are part of the ncurses (or tinfo) library, which need to be linked explicitly for Readline to work. (Thanks, geekosaur, for the tips) Apparently some distributions prefer to keep the system libraries incomplete (for flexibility?) - but Readline (NativeCall) can't know how to combine additional dependent libraries without being told. There isn't any way to do that, is there?