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authorNiklas Hambüchen <mail@nh2.me>2019-07-01T16·31+0200
committerNiklas Hambüchen <mail@nh2.me>2019-07-03T02·32+0200
commit1f97b16b1d9d93e083a4f1436ba002e073cbe379 (patch)
tree2632ca704d438539425c1f1aef142ed86e56fa64 /configure.ac
parent00a450026f71306bef6acc150af4aa5ffe75801c (diff)
autoconf: Work around editline not being found on Ubuntu 16.04.
And probably other Linux distributions with long-term support releases.

Also update manual stating what version is needed;
I checked that 1.14 is the oldest version with which current nix compiles,
and added autoconf feature checks for some functions added in that release
that nix uses.
Diffstat (limited to 'configure.ac')
-rw-r--r--configure.ac11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 426d3b674072..28be50575efa 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -171,7 +171,16 @@ PKG_CHECK_MODULES([SQLITE3], [sqlite3 >= 3.6.19], [CXXFLAGS="$SQLITE3_CFLAGS $CX
 PKG_CHECK_MODULES([LIBCURL], [libcurl], [CXXFLAGS="$LIBCURL_CFLAGS $CXXFLAGS"])
 
 # Look for editline, a required dependency.
-PKG_CHECK_MODULES([EDITLINE], [libeditline], [CXXFLAGS="$EDITLINE_CFLAGS $CXXFLAGS"])
+# The the libeditline.pc file was added only in libeditline >= 1.15.2,
+# see https://github.com/troglobit/editline/commit/0a8f2ef4203c3a4a4726b9dd1336869cd0da8607,
+# but e.g. Ubuntu 16.04 has an older version, so we fall back to searching for
+# editline.h when the pkg-config approach fails.
+PKG_CHECK_MODULES([EDITLINE], [libeditline], [CXXFLAGS="$EDITLINE_CFLAGS $CXXFLAGS"], [
+  AC_CHECK_HEADERS([editline.h], [true],
+    [AC_MSG_ERROR([Nix requires libeditline; it was found neither via pkg-config nor its normal header.])])
+  AC_SEARCH_LIBS([readline read_history], [editline], [],
+    [AC_MSG_ERROR([Nix requires libeditline; it was not found via pkg-config, but via its header, but required functions do not work. Maybe it is too old? >= 1.14 is required.])])
+])
 
 # Look for libsodium, an optional dependency.
 PKG_CHECK_MODULES([SODIUM], [libsodium],