Вот ещё одно заблуждение:

----- Forwarded message from QA Team Robot <qa@altlinux> -----

checking for library containing tgetent... no
configure: error: termcap could not be found which is required for the
--with-readline option (which is enabled by default).  Either disable readline
support with --without-readline or download and install termcap from:
	ftp.gnu.org/gnu/termcap
Note: if you are using precompiled packages you will also need the development
  package as well (which may be called termcap-devel or something similar).
Note: (n)curses also seems to work as a substitute for termcap.  This was
  not found either - but you could try installing that as well.

----- End forwarded message -----

Заблуждение заключается в том, что для линковки с readline требуется
termcap.  У нас libreadline слинкован с libtinfo, поэтому для
использования readline никаких других библиотек не требуется.
Но не всякий configure-скрипт об этом догадывается.


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