Use the libreadline in Winedbg, if available

Patrik Stridvall ps at leissner.se
Mon Jun 18 12:16:26 CDT 2001


> On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 04:10:14PM +0200, Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> > Hallo,
> > 
> > at present, wine uses unconditionally a self supplied readline
> > function. Appended patch tries to find out if libreadline 
> is available 
> > and uses libreadline if available. I configured with and without
> > libreadline and successfully compiled winedbg on my system.
> > libreadline is a static library on my system and winedbg 
> grew 90 kByte
> > stripped and 110 kByte compiled with -g.
> 
> You are not allowed to link readline aganst non GPL code to 
> my knowledge.

No, it is enough that it is GPL compatible which the Wine license is.

Whether we should is another matter though. Just linking it 
to the debugger is rather harmless IMHO though.




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