Anthony> It sounds like configure needs to grow a test to detect that a
Anthony> "libreadline" it finds is actually the crackful "libedit" and
Anthony> refuse to use it if so.
>> FYI: Real libreadline is GPL, ...
Didn't Python's readline module work with libedit once upon a time? I
believe that's the readline semi-clone that Rich Salz quite awhile ago.
I've forgotten the details of the difference (missing history capabilities
perhaps). Is there some way we can make libedit palatable again?
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