Bdale Garbee writes:
> We're a bit confused. For readline, it looks as though there are three
> packages on the ftp server under the development tree. These are devel/librl,
> devel/libreadline, and devel/aout-librl. I presume from this that the librl
> package is the one we want for ELF development? If so, it appears to me that
> only a shared library is being provided, which both shared and archive libs
> are present for aout-librl. Am I correct, and if so, why? I gather that we
> need to use a static link to get debugging to work? I get the feeling here
> that we're victims of work in progress, since I don't understand why both
> libreadline and librl packages are out there.
librl is the old readline package
libreadline is the new ELF readline package
aout-librl is the new a.out readline package
libreadline has an archive library
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