Re: couldn't build pipe-viewer with debian
I forgot to install the -dev package. I'll try this again and see if it
goes through.
On Mon, 3 Jan 2022, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 07:38:25PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > pipe-viewer youtube-viewer and straw-viewer cannot be built with debian.
> > The reasons for that are each of those packages require
> > Term::ReadLine::Gnu and Term::ReadLine::Gnu cannot be built withreadline
> > 2.0. That's an ancient version of readline. I tried with readline 2.01
> > and my x86_64 equipment wasn't recognized by that package. The readline
> > versions go all the way up to 8.0 by now [...]
>
> The version of the libreadline8 package on bullseye is 8.1-1.
>
> Is there any chance you're conflating the version number of GNU readline
> (a C library provided by the bash maintainer, currently version 8.x on
> bullseye) with some perl package that has "readline" in its name? Or
> that you simply forgot to install libreadline-dev?
>
> Could you show us the actual error message you get when you try to
> build it?
>
> Also, what's wrong with the libterm-readline-gnu-perl package in Debian?
> Is it too old or something?
>
> unicorn:~$ apt-cache show libterm-readline-gnu-perl
> Package: libterm-readline-gnu-perl
> Version: 1.37-1
> [...]
>
> unicorn:~$ apt-cache show libreadline-dev
> Package: libreadline-dev
> Source: readline
> Version: 8.1-1
> [...]
>
>
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