Re: lua.c:78:31: fatal error:

[Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>]

> On Jan 20, 2015, at 10:08 AM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Tim Hill <drtimhill@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Jan 20, 2015, at 2:09 AM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hello. I am running on Ubuntu and just tried to compile Lua but received
>>>> the following error message:
>>>> 
>>>> lua.c:78:31: fatal error: readline/readline.h: No such file or directory
>>> 
>>> The readme at http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/readme.html#install says:
>>> 
>>>  "If you're running Linux and get compilation errors,
>>>   make sure you have installed the readline development package”
>>> 
>> 
>> How about adding “typically named deadline-dev” since many (including me the first time I hit this) will not know the name of the package, and apt-get doesn’t exactly make it easy to discover.
>> 
>> —Tim
> 
> readline, not deadline, and it's libreadline-dev. ;) Anyway, if you're
> going to do that, you should also name readline-devel because that's
> what most RPM-based distros call it.
> 
> /s/ Adam
> 

lolz .. autocorrect :)

—Tim