Re: readline problems on OSX

[Per P. <per...@ma...>]

On Jan 25, 2007, at 22:09, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> On Thursday 25 January 2007 12:52, Per Persson wrote:
>>
>> 1) The readline issue is caused by someone at Apple having the
>> "bright" idea to symlink /usr/lib/libreadline.dylib to /usr/lib/
>> libedit.dylib
>> (The reason for not including readline are license terms, only BSD/
>> LGPL/etc. in OS X not GPL)
>>

I've put a patch (#1646558) which makes configure look for  
_remove_history rather than _readline.
This works on OS X 10.4.x, but newer versions of libedit seems to  
have that symbol, so this is likely not a future-proof test.

Let me know if you think I should commit it to CVS.

/Per