4 | | libedit does not depend on readline. But libedit, like thousands of other ports, uses a configure script. And part of the boilerplate that autotools bakes into every configure script is to locate a gawk implementation. The first one it checks for is gawk, so if the gawk port happens to be installed, a configure script will try to use that. gawk depends on readline, and if you have upgraded ncurses but haven't upgraded readline to use the new ncurses, then gawk will be broken. |
| 4 | libedit does not depend on readline. But libedit, like thousands of other ports, uses a configure script. And part of the boilerplate that autotools bakes into every configure script is to locate an awk implementation. The first one it checks for is gawk, so if the gawk port happens to be installed, a configure script will try to use that. gawk depends on readline, and if you have upgraded ncurses but haven't upgraded readline to use the new ncurses, then gawk will be broken. |