After searching the dozens of web sites with this problem, I found a solution: readline-devel, ncurses-devel, lua-binary which I loaded and got around the problem. It almost compiled but had problems with fortran compiler complaining about cray pointers. Will be in touch if I can;t solve this one THANK YOU!

On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 10:17 AM, 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 knarf):

 Note: Request for more info sent on Aug 2 using mailing list.

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