On 2019-09-22, at 10:22:37 +0100, Jeremy Sowden wrote: > 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. The other thing I forgot to reiterate this morning is that linenoise support was requested for embedded environments where readline is not an option. I don't expect it to be used in general-purpose distro's which _do_ have readline available. J.
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