Jason Schroeder writes:
> The following configure.in patch changes the following:
> 1) It adds --without-readline to control whether the readling package is
> used
> Obviously, this could be extended to the general
> --with[out]-readline[=DIR] pattern, but this is as far as I got.
Why would one not use readline?
> 2) It permits the termcap library to be used IFF ncurses and curses are not
> available.
I don't think older versions of readline can be linked against curses. If
at all, termcap should be tried before curses, but that might not be
portable either. You'd need to try a complete link of a readline-using
program, I think.
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