On Mon, 16 May 2005 at 6:31pm, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote

> And as you are aware hell of alot of data mostly stating no file or
> directory found and last but not least READLINE_LIBS=""
> 
> configure:27608: checking readline.h usability
> configure:27620: gcc -c -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g -O2
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64    conftest.c >&5
> conftest.c:129:22: readline.h: No such file or directory
> configure:27626: $? = 1
> 
> I have run # locate readline
> 
> server:/local/sw/src/amanda-2.4.4 # locate readline
> /lib/libreadline.so.4
> /lib/libreadline.so.4.3
> /usr/include/guile-readline
> /usr/include/guile-readline/readline.h
> /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-12.a
> /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-12.la
> /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-12.so
> /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-12.so.12
> /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-12.so.12.3.0
> /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/readline.so
> /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/xreadlines.so
> /usr/share/doc/packages/bash/readline.html
> /usr/share/guile/1.6/ice-9/readline.scm
> /usr/share/info/readline.info.gz
> /usr/share/vim/vim62/indent/readline.vim
> /usr/share/vim/vim62/syntax/readline.vim

It seems to me that you're missing what on Red Hat, e.g., would be the 
'readline-devel' RPM, which supplies /usr/include/readline and its 
contents (including readline.h).  You never mentioned OS as far as I 
recall, but make sure all the appropriate devel packages are installed.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University