[gtk-gnutella-users] local-shell with readline

[Andrew B. <b3...@gm...>]

Hello,
I sometimes run Gtk-Gnutella as a headless daemon and talk to it using
the local shell compiled with:
cc -o /usr/bin/gtkg-shell -DLOCAL_SHELL_STANDALONE src/core/local_shell.c

That works well enough, however, it does not have any command history
if I press the up arrow on my keyboard. Reading through local_shell.c I
noticed:

#ifdef USE_READLINE
#include <readline/readline.h>
#include <readline/history.h>
#endif

So I recompiled gtkg-shell with:
cc -o /usr/bin/gtkg-shell -DLOCAL_SHELL_STANDALONE \
  -DUSE_READLINE -lreadline -lncursesw src/core/local_shell.c

However, that wouldn't work, it gave me an error as though
gtk-gnutella-headless wasn't running, even though I could see it was
running in ps aux. So I recompiled gtk-gnutella-headless with:
./build.sh --topless --libs="-lreadline -lncursesw -lz -lm" \
  --cppflags="-DUSE_READLINE"

(-lz -lm were needed to avoid linker errors) and that is a bit better,
I can:
echo status | gtkg-shell
and I get a response, however, if I just run gtkg-shell directly it is
unresponsive to commands, I have to press ctrl-c to get back to bash.
So I've gone round a few circles but I'm no nearer to using readline to
get some history in gtkg-shell. Can anyone suggest where I'm going
wrong?

Andy