When trying to compile ng-spice-rework-17 as follows on a Debian Sarge system:
./configure --with-readline=yes --enable-xspice
make
make exits with an error because of an unreferenced variable history_file as shown below:
>/home/coolens/rommel/ng-spice-rework-17/src/frontend/misccoms.c:241:
> undefined reference to `history_file'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>...
2007-01-15 11:19:22 UTC in ngspice