configure cannot find headers for libreadline

[Richard B. Kreckel]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Chris Dams wrote:
> Well, I found the source of the problem. The result of looking for the
> headers is stored in the cache file of configure, so if you run configure,
> see that it cannot find a header file, set CPPFLAGS, run configure again,
> it does not do anything with the CPPFLAGS but it uses the cache file that
> says the header file is not present. sigh...
> 
> The solution is saying somehting like
> ./configure --prefix=/home/thef/chrisd/c++ --cache-file=/dev/null

Alternatively, `make distclean' will `rm -f config.cache'.

Regards
    -richy.
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