Then why are you setting CFLAGS += -I$(prefix)? That seems wrong. The 'prefix' is where you're building to install mujs; that has nothing to do with where we can find readline.

On FreeBSD all packages are installed into one location, usually withPREFIX=/usr/local.readline is also a package installed there.

Practically speaking, there is no need to separatereadline location andmujs install prefix, because virtually all other software doesn't, and on BSDreadline is a package and is installed into the package prefix, which might be different from linux. I maintain a lot of packages on FreeBSD, that's how I know.

But why would you even want to build them together like that to begin with? Doesn't make much sense at all to do that. Just compile the two libraries separately and then link the object files in the final step. Simple enough anyway.

But why would you even want to build them together like that to begin with

They aren't built together. They each are its own port.

On FreeBSDreadline is available from thereadline package, which is always installed into$(PREFIX), same as themujs package.

The 'prefix' is where you're building to install mujs; that has nothing to do with where we can find readline.

It is always the same location on BSDs. According to GNU standards,$(PREFIX) is where the program is installed and general dependencies are found. Unfortunately, they didn't define a special dependency package path variable.

@ccxvii Could you please merge this PR? It allows FreeBSD users to use readline with MuJS, which is otherwise not found.

$prefix is both a location where the project is installed, and where to look for outside dependencies installed from packages.

$ ldd /usr/local/bin/mujs/usr/local/bin/mujs:libreadline.so.8 => /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so.8 (0x8002c3000)libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x800319000)libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x80034a000)libncursesw.so.8 => /lib/libncursesw.so.8 (0x800740000)