Re: Opening a can of worms: a readline gnulib module?

[Oskar Liljeblad]

On Thursday, August 11, 2005 at 23:14, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> 
> > I don't know if the readline module covers this, but on recent
> > Fedora/RedHat systems you'll need to link with ncurses or some
> > other library providing certain termcap (or was it terminfo?)
> > functions... You don't need to do this with Debian.
> 
> This appears to be the case, I have access to one such system, so I
> can try M4 magic on it.  I have no idea how to solve this without a
> lot of code though (i.e., if AC_TRY_LINK fail, try the exact same
> AC_TRY_LINK again but with -ltermcap in LIBS too).  Relevant current
> code below.
> 
> Thoughts?

I'll check the code soon, but why don't you use READLINE_LIBS instead
of LIBREADLINE etc? That's the convention most other automake macros
I've seen use. Oh well, I guess it's just my personal taste :)

Also check this:

http://ac-archive.sourceforge.net/Installed_Packages/vl_lib_readline.html

It also mentions libedit and libeditline (apparently those are other
GNU readline-like implementations).

Regards,

Oskar Liljeblad (address@hidden)