On 2019-09-22, at 09:09:24 +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 09:19:23PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > > 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) > > I thought this is like mini-gmp.c? That was also my impression. > Are distributors packaging this as a library? It turns out that Fedora has packaged an old fork of it, which is also available in EPEL, and I missed it. Apologies. There's nothing in Debian or Ubuntu. How about adding an `AC_CHECK_LIB([linenoise], ...)` check and falling back to the bundled copy? J.
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