New submission from Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de>:
The configure.ac code for editline/readline detection is complicated. Especially the code for linking with extra termcap libraries makes it complicated to port the check to pkg-config. The termcap checks were added by Greg in bpo-3645 and commit 188209465a966cf046ed7946589aa21767f95e68 . I propose to simplify the checks and require a readline 4.2 compatible API. GNU readline was released in 2001 (20 years ago). NetBSD libedit editline/readline.h has RL_READLINE_VERSION 0x0402 for at least 10 years. * drop the check for additional termcap libs * remove the fallback to completion_matches * replace AC_CHECK_LIB($LIBREADLINE, ...) checks with a check for RL_READLINE_VERSION >= 0x0402 What do you think? ---------- components: Build messages: 408700 nosy: christian.heimes, erlendaasland, gregory.p.smith priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Simplify readline / editline detection type: enhancement versions: Python 3.11 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue46100> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
