Index: configure
===================================================================
--- configure	(revision 58227)
+++ configure	(working copy)
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #! /bin/sh
-# From configure.in Revision: 57904 .
+# From configure.in Revision: 57960 .
 # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
 # Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61 for python 2.6.
 #
@@ -21500,6 +21500,93 @@
 
 fi
 
+# This will find the lib that defines tgetent and add it to LIBS; it is
+# necessary for readline tests on platforms for which readline shared libs
+# don't have a dependency on curses libs.
+{ echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for library containing tgetent" >&5
+echo $ECHO_N "checking for library containing tgetent... $ECHO_C" >&6; }
+if test "${ac_cv_search_tgetent+set}" = set; then
+  echo $ECHO_N "(cached) $ECHO_C" >&6
+else
+  ac_func_search_save_LIBS=$LIBS
+cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
+/* confdefs.h.  */
+_ACEOF
+cat confdefs.h >>conftest.$ac_ext
+cat >>conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
+/* end confdefs.h.  */
+
+/* Override any GCC internal prototype to avoid an error.
+   Use char because int might match the return type of a GCC
+   builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C"
+#endif
+char tgetent ();
+int
+main ()
+{
+return tgetent ();
+  ;
+  return 0;
+}
+_ACEOF
+for ac_lib in '' ncursesw ncurses curses termcap; do
+  if test -z "$ac_lib"; then
+    ac_res="none required"
+  else
+    ac_res=-l$ac_lib
+    LIBS="-l$ac_lib  $ac_func_search_save_LIBS"
+  fi
+  rm -f conftest.$ac_objext conftest$ac_exeext
+if { (ac_try="$ac_link"
+case "(($ac_try" in
+  *\"* | *\`* | *\\*) ac_try_echo=\$ac_try;;
+  *) ac_try_echo=$ac_try;;
+esac
+eval "echo \"\$as_me:$LINENO: $ac_try_echo\"") >&5
+  (eval "$ac_link") 2>conftest.er1
+  ac_status=$?
+  grep -v '^ *+' conftest.er1 >conftest.err
+  rm -f conftest.er1
+  cat conftest.err >&5
+  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
+  (exit $ac_status); } && {
+	 test -z "$ac_c_werror_flag" ||
+	 test ! -s conftest.err
+       } && test -s conftest$ac_exeext &&
+       $as_test_x conftest$ac_exeext; then
+  ac_cv_search_tgetent=$ac_res
+else
+  echo "$as_me: failed program was:" >&5
+sed 's/^/| /' conftest.$ac_ext >&5
+
+
+fi
+
+rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext conftest_ipa8_conftest.oo \
+      conftest$ac_exeext
+  if test "${ac_cv_search_tgetent+set}" = set; then
+  break
+fi
+done
+if test "${ac_cv_search_tgetent+set}" = set; then
+  :
+else
+  ac_cv_search_tgetent=no
+fi
+rm conftest.$ac_ext
+LIBS=$ac_func_search_save_LIBS
+fi
+{ echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: $ac_cv_search_tgetent" >&5
+echo "${ECHO_T}$ac_cv_search_tgetent" >&6; }
+ac_res=$ac_cv_search_tgetent
+if test "$ac_res" != no; then
+  test "$ac_res" = "none required" || LIBS="$ac_res $LIBS"
+
+fi
+
+
 # check for readline 2.1
 { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for rl_callback_handler_install in -lreadline" >&5
 echo $ECHO_N "checking for rl_callback_handler_install in -lreadline... $ECHO_C" >&6; }
Index: configure.in
===================================================================
--- configure.in	(revision 58227)
+++ configure.in	(working copy)
@@ -3116,6 +3116,11 @@
   AC_CHECK_LIB(termcap, readline)
 fi
 
+# This will find the lib that defines tgetent and add it to LIBS; it is
+# necessary for readline tests on platforms for which readline shared libs
+# don't have a dependency on curses libs.
+AC_SEARCH_LIBS(tgetent, [ncursesw ncurses curses termcap])
+
 # check for readline 2.1
 AC_CHECK_LIB(readline, rl_callback_handler_install,
 	AC_DEFINE(HAVE_RL_CALLBACK, 1,