lua won't build

[Larry Wyble <llwyble@...>]

I tried to build a new version of lua because I was getting several
errors trying to incorporate it into Conky. When I tried to build the
newer version I got errors from readline so I installed
readline-6.3.tar.gz but I still get errors like the following trying to
build lua:

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/lua-5.2.3/src'
make all SYSCFLAGS="-DLUA_USE_LINUX" SYSLIBS="-Wl,-E -ldl -lreadline"
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/lua-5.2.3/src'
gcc -o lua   lua.o liblua.a -lm -Wl,-E -ldl -lreadline 
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tputs'
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgoto'
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetflag'
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `UP'
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetent'
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetnum'
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `PC'
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetstr'
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `BC'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [lua] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/lua-5.2.3/src'
make[1]: *** [linux] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/lua-5.2.3/src'

Any help appreciated, Thanks