Hack to work around broken linker on older NetBSD/OpenBSD/Irix assumed

that readline must depend on libcurses, but it seems more recent ones
use libtermcap instead.  Allow that case.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 378cd612910..3adda4f71e2 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -5996,13 +5996,14 @@ if { (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \"$ac_link\"") >&5
   echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
   (exit $ac_status); }; }; then
 
-      # NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Irix have a broken linker that does not
-      # recognize dependent libraries
-      case $host_os in netbsd* | openbsd* | irix*)
-        case $pgac_lib in
-          *curses*) ;;
-          *) pgac_lib=" -lcurses" ;;
-        esac
+      # Older NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Irix have a broken linker that does not
+      # recognize dependent libraries; assume curses is needed if we didn't
+      # find any dependency.
+      case $host_os in
+        netbsd* | openbsd* | irix*)
+          if test x"$pgac_lib" = x"" ; then
+            pgac_lib=" -lcurses"
+          fi ;;
       esac
 
       pgac_cv_check_readline="${pgac_rllib}${pgac_lib}"