From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 20 10:30:33 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 393CB37B401 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2003 10:30:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ece.cmu.edu (ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.136.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8273143F75 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2003 10:30:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: from [10.9.204.1] (allbery@allbery.dsl.telerama.com [205.201.8.182]) (authenticated) by ece.cmu.edu (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id h3KHUK302113; Sun, 20 Apr 2003 13:30:20 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH To: Alex Kiesel In-Reply-To: <1050859724.42322.14.camel@detention.home.ahk> References: <20030420171505.GE36951@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <1050859724.42322.14.camel@detention.home.ahk> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1050859841.78636.18.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 20 Apr 2003 13:30:41 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-ports Subject: Re: libedit / readline X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 17:30:33 -0000 On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 13:28, Alex Kiesel wrote: > On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 19:15, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > What I'd like to know is this: if libedit is meant to be a drop-in > > replacement for readline, why doesn't it export readline()? > > Is it really? Hm, readline is in the base system. Why don't you link > against it? editline() is intended to be a replacement for readline(), but not a drop-in replacement; or at least that's been my understanding of it. -- brandon s allbery [openafs/solaris/japh/freebsd] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [linux/heimdal/too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university [better check the oblivious first -ke6sls]