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

[Simon Josefsson]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> I installed the patch below.  It builds on the same platforms, but now
>> finds the readline library properly on Fedora too.
>> ...
>> checking for readline... yes
>> checking how to link with libreadline... -lreadline -ltermcap
>
> This is a problem because libtermcap is unsecure by design. (It has APIs
> where the caller must allocate a buffer and doesn't tell the callee how
> large the buffer is.) Therefore libncurses is to be preferred over
> libtermcap. If you leave the macro as is, it will lead to rpms of some
> packages that force users to install the termcap rpm.
>
> I installed this patch.

Thanks!  Looks good.