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From: | Simon Josefsson |
Subject: | Re: Opening a can of worms: a readline gnulib module? |
Date: | Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:16:55 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes: > Simon Josefsson wrote: >> I installed the patch below. It builds on the same platforms, but now >> finds the readline library properly on Fedora too. >> ... >> checking for readline... yes >> checking how to link with libreadline... -lreadline -ltermcap > > This is a problem because libtermcap is unsecure by design. (It has APIs > where the caller must allocate a buffer and doesn't tell the callee how > large the buffer is.) Therefore libncurses is to be preferred over > libtermcap. If you leave the macro as is, it will lead to rpms of some > packages that force users to install the termcap rpm. > > I installed this patch. Thanks! Looks good.
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