> On 11 Oct 2016, at 05:18, Mark Andrews via RT wrote: > > 4484. [bug] Failure to find readline when requested should be > fatal to configure. [RT #43328] > > This is different to the patch you sent. Thanks! But I think that doesn't work in the "yes" case because $readline gets clobbered by the loop that looks for -ledit -lreadline, which is why my original patch was more complicated. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch http://dotat.at