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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 /doc/manual/installation
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.
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diff --git a/doc/manual/installation/prerequisites-source.xml b/doc/manual/installation/prerequisites-source.xml
index e87d0de21ef6..cbaa4d525274 100644
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+++ b/doc/manual/installation/prerequisites-source.xml
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@
   1.66.0 or higher. It can be obtained from the official web site
   <link xlink:href="https://www.boost.org/" />.</para></listitem>
 
+  <listitem><para>The <literal>editline</literal> library of version
+  1.14.0 or higher. It can be obtained from the its repository
+  <link xlink:href="https://github.com/troglobit/editline" />.</para></listitem>
+
   <listitem><para>The <command>xmllint</command> and
   <command>xsltproc</command> programs to build this manual and the
   man-pages.  These are part of the <literal>libxml2</literal> and