On Saturday 2019-09-21 14:20, Jeremy Sowden wrote: > https://github.com/antirez/linenoise/ > >The upstream repo doesn't contain the infrastructure for building or >installing libraries. There was a 1.0 release made in 2015, but there >have been a number of bug-fixes committed since. Therefore, add the >latest upstream source: > src/linenoise.c | 1201 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ That seems like a recipe to end up with stale code. For a distribution, it's static linking worsened by another degree. (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bundled_Libraries?rd=Packaging:Bundled_Libraries )