Re: Opening a can of worms: a readline gnulib module?

[Bruno Haible]

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Any objections to this readline module?  There were some discussion,
> but no real objection from what I could tell.

There was the objection that some packages need more from GNU readline
than just one function. Therefore you will need to add more functions
upon demand :-)

> > +  printf ("%s", prompt);

You can simplify that to

      fputs (prompt);

> > +  AC_CHECK_LIB(readline, readline)

Can you please use AC_LIB_LINKFLAGS (from lib-link.m4) instead? So that
the library is recognized (and the -rpath linker option is used) when it
is installed in the $PREFIX directory but not in /usr/lib ?

> > +Maintainer:
> > +all

You can put your name here, to show that you are responsible for this module.

Bruno