David Levine <levin...@acm.org> writes: >Norm writes: > >> comp: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.6: cannot ope= >n shared object file: No such file or directory >> >> What I am doing wrong? > >Nothing. Either the nmh package for the version of Ubuntu you're using >needs to be rebuilt, or you need to install a libreadline6 package. I >took a quick look and didn't find one, but I don't use Ubuntu. > >In the meantime, if you want to build nmh yourself from scratch, run: > >wget http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nmh.git/plain/build_nmh && >sh build_nmh -iv > >Respond to the prompts, the first is the install directory. The rest >probably have good defaults. >
I would prefer that. It gives me more control over where files go and it would allow me to keep up with intermediate nmh versions. I tried it. I get a "build failed". I am attaching the build log. Norman Shapiro
build_nmh -iv x86_64 Linux 4.15.0-1027-oem #32-Ubuntu SMP Sat Nov 10 06:29:08 UTC 2018 NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)" ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 18.04 LTS" VERSION_ID="18.04" HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/" SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/" PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy" VERSION_CODENAME=bionic UBUNTU_CODENAME=bionic + autoreconf -v -i ./autogen.sh: 14: ./autogen.sh: autoreconf: not found build_nmh: autogen failed, see MACHINES file for autoconf, automake, flex, and bison requirements