diff --git a/.github/workflows/linux-ccl.yml b/.github/workflows/linux-ccl.yml
index 487bad554..8c60d3dcd 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/linux-ccl.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/linux-ccl.yml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jobs:
         tar xvf ccl-1.13-linuxx86.tar.gz
 
     - name: configure
-      run: ./configure --with-lisp=`pwd ./ccl/lx86cl64` --with-gmp --with-x || cat config.log
+      run: ./configure --with-lisp=`pwd`/ccl/lx86cl64 --with-gmp --with-x || cat config.log
 
     - name: make
       run: make -j4 --output-sync
diff --git a/.github/workflows/linux-gcl.yml b/.github/workflows/linux-gcl.yml
index 9b024c2ed..0dc252eba 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/linux-gcl.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/linux-gcl.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: install dependencies
       run: |
         sudo apt-get update
-        sudo apt-get install gcl libxpm-dev
+        sudo apt-get install gcl libxpm-dev libreadline-dev
 
     - name: configure
       run: ./configure --with-lisp=gcl --with-x || cat config.log