Re: [patch] fix building when readline is disabled

[Chet Ramey]

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On 4/24/12 10:46 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 April 2012 08:23:04 Chet Ramey wrote:
>> On 4/24/12 12:00 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>>> OK, so you've stripped the local readline copy out of the source tree?
>>>
>>> yes
>>>
>>>> Then configured it to build with a system readline library installation
>>>> that you remove?
>>>
>>> the system doesn't have readline at all
>>
>> Why?
> 
> because it's a small system which has no need for things like readline.  i 
> don't think this is a terribly unusual use case.

Sure, there are systems that don't want or need the readline library
installed or things linked to it.  That's not unusual.  It's not what
we're talking about here.

What we're talking about is removing about 1 MB of source code
(lib/readline) from the bash source tree *wherever you're building it*.
This doesn't have anything to do with readline being built or installed.
I don't have any doubt that you encountered a build error when you removed
lib/readline from the bash source tree.  What I'm wondering is what you
thought you would gain by doing it.

Chet
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