Error installing on OS X 10.11.3 about perl6-readline

[raiph]

See also https://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2016-01-08#i_11850841 and https://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2016-01-08#i_11850868

[dha]

Yes, OS X comes with libedit, apparently, rather than libreadline. If you use Homebrew to install packages on your OS X system, it deals with this problem(?) thus: It does not link to readline in /usr/local, but rather suggests that you build libraries that require readline with flags to explicitly locate it (e. g. -L/usr/local/opt/readline/lib).

So, I suppose in that particular case the install process could check for a Homebrew install of readline, and act accordingly, but it's clearly not a general solution for OS X. That said, I don't really know how this should be solved in the general case.

Not sure how much that helps, but I think that gives a bit more detail than the IRC log above.