Stefan Krah added the comment: I still don't understand why libncurses is linked against libtinfo but libreadline is not. Again, what is your OS?
Example Ubuntu (a modern system): $ ldd /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.5 linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff5bfed000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fcb8b43a000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007fcb8b211000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fcb8ae4a000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fcb8b87d000) $ ldd /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libreadline.so.6 linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff8c5fe000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f43055a0000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f43051da000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f4305a2b000) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23284> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com