From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 29 10:12:25 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E3EC106564A for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:12:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F80E8FC16 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:12:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.14.4/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id pAT9jld6050040 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:45:47 +0100 (CET) X-Ids: 164 Received: from [192.168.1.10] (niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 427EB20355 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:45:46 +0100 (CET) From: Michel Talon Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:45:41 +0100 Message-Id: <11D0FEA5-53E1-4EAA-B94B-F58282A073E3@lpthe.jussieu.fr> To: freebsd-current Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1251.1) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1251.1) X-Miltered: at jchkmail.jussieu.fr with ID 4ED4A9CB.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http : // j-chkmail dot ensmp dot fr)! X-j-chkmail-Enveloppe: 4ED4A9CB.001/134.157.10.1/parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr/parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr/ X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:17:57 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: removing libreadline from base system X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:12:25 -0000 >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.=20 -- Michel Talon talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr