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Asked: 2026-05-11T20:59:50+00:00

I’m trying to install readline 6 from source but run into an error during

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I’m trying to install readline 6 from source but run into an error during ‘make install’.

Here is the end of the output after executing ‘sudo make install’

( cd shlib ; make  DESTDIR= install )
/bin/sh ../support/mkdirs /usr/local/lib
/bin/sh ../support/shlib-install -O darwin9.7.0 -d /usr/local/lib -b /usr/local/bin -i "/usr/bin/install -c -m 644" libhistory.6.0.dylib
/bin/sh ../support/shlib-install -O darwin9.7.0 -d /usr/local/lib -b /usr/local/bin -i "/usr/bin/install -c -m 644" libreadline.6.0.dylib
install: you may need to run ldconfig

I know that ldconfig isn’t installed by default on OS X, and I read somewhere that it shouldn’t be needed to fix this issue. I believe it has something to do with dynamic libraries, but I haven’t been able to find out how to fix the issue, anyone have any insight?

FYI, I’m running OS X on an intel 2.4ghz macbook

thanks

P.S. I also applied the 3 available readline 6 patches before running configure and make

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  1. Editorial Team

    Actually, this isn’t an error at all… it’s just a notice message at the end of the install. It get this too, and my readline 6 is happily installed.

    If you check /usr/local/lib and see readline there, you’re done 🙂 No need to run any equivalent of ldconfig.

    $ ls /usr/local/lib | grep readline
libreadline.6.0.dylib
libreadline.6.dylib
libreadline.a
libreadline.dylib
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