Re: lua.c:78:31: fatal error:

[Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>]

> On Jan 20, 2015, at 2:09 AM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> 
>> Hello. I am running on Ubuntu and just tried to compile Lua but received
>> the following error message:
>> 
>> lua.c:78:31: fatal error: readline/readline.h: No such file or directory
> 
> The readme at http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/readme.html#install says:
> 
>   "If you're running Linux and get compilation errors,
>    make sure you have installed the readline development package”
> 

How about adding “typically named deadline-dev” since many (including me the first time I hit this) will not know the name of the package, and apt-get doesn’t exactly make it easy to discover.

—Tim