Building LUA under linux fails

[Jason White <whitewaterssoftwareinfo@...>]

Hello everyone, I am trying to build lua 5.1.4 on my linux box
and I got this

> jason@jason-master-desktop:~/Desktop/lua-5.1.4/src$ make
>        linuxmake all MYCFLAGS=-DLUA_USE_LINUX MYLIBS=
>        "-Wl,-E -ldl -lreadline -lhistory -lncurses"
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jason/Desktop/lua-5.1.4/src'
> gcc -o lua  lua.o liblua.a -lm -Wl,-E -ldl -lreadline -lhistory -lncurses
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lreadline
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lhistory
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [lua] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jason/Desktop/lua-5.1.4/src'
> make: *** [linux] Error 2

I ripped -lreadline and -lhistory out of the makefile and it compiles fine
however I am curious why it requires and didn't find both of them ...

Thanks


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Jason White - Python / C++ Programmer and Electronics Hobbyist