>> If you just do "./configure" with fvwm95-2.3.33 on a system that uses
>                                    ^^^^^^- What? :)

        Sorry for the typo.  I meant fvwm-2.3.33.

>> ncurses instead of termcap, it will decide that readline wants "-ltermcap"
>> rather than "-lncurses".  The reason for this is that configure.in
>> relies on the autoconf macro smr_ARG_WITHLIB setting with_termcap to "no"
>> if there is no termcap library, but, in fact, smr_ARG_WITHLIB defaults
>> to setting it to "maybe", even if the library does not exist.

>Well, no, smr_ARG_WITHLIB is supposed to return "maybe" in this case, and
>./configure expects this (and not "no").

>Let see if I understand this "problem". You have both libtermcap and
>libncurses installed, fvwm chooses libtermcap to be used together with
>libreadline, and you don't like this.

>If this is the case, use: --without-termcap-library --with-ncurses-library
>(only the first is really needed), like it is suggested in INSTALL.fvwm.

       No.  ./configure is supposed to autodetect these kinds of things
when it can if you do not give it arguments.  My patch fixes this problem.

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