Sorry for my ignorance but put your Verbose instructions in makefile.. Attached are the  Cactus output. File A is the gmake config and File B is just gmake. The build log are very small but also attached. The two problem libraries were in /Cactus/configs/Cactus/scratch. the libncurses config log is attached. lua did not have one.  Thank you for any help.  David Rosenberg.

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Einstein Toolkit <trac-noreply@einsteintoolkit.org> wrote:
#1938: trouble installing readline
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  Reporter:  drdnrosenberg@…          |       Owner:  David Rosenberg
      Type:  defect                   |      Status:  new
  Priority:  critical                 |   Milestone:  ET_2016_11
 Component:  Cactus                   |     Version:  ET_2015_05
Resolution:                           |    Keywords:
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Comment (by sbrandt):

 Ah, now I understand. Lua does not actually *need* readline however. It
 can be compiled without it.

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