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Date:      Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:45:41 +0100
From:      Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
To:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: removing libreadline from base system
Message-ID:  <11D0FEA5-53E1-4EAA-B94B-F58282A073E3@lpthe.jussieu.fr>

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>The only "problem" I see is from the ports lots of them relies on base
>libreadline, so we need to first run an exp-run without libreadline, to
>determine the impact and fix the related ports, before we can fully drop
>libreadline.

One of the first port to consider, i think, is rlwrap.  Some time ago i had to compile it on  a mac (which is equipped with libedit in place of libreadline) and it had problems since it calls functions in libreadline not in libedit .   So i was forced
to also compile libreadline. 

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Michel Talon
talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr







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