[libvirt] [PATCH] configure: adds an option for not using the readline library

Ruben Kerkhof ruben at rubenkerkhof.com
Sun Oct 24 23:58:42 UTC 2010


Hi Justin,

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 23:48, Justin Clift <jclift at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 10/23/2010 09:58 AM, Justin Clift wrote:
>> So we can use "--with-readline=no" for situations where that
>> helpful.  ie.  MacOS X 10.5.
>>
>> By default, we use "--with-readline=check".
>
> Not sure if we need this patch.  There's nothing wrong with it
> (that I know of), but the OSX version that needed it, turns out
> not too.  We were able to link in a newer version of the proper
> readline libraries instead.
>
> ?

I think this patch is still useful for users not using homebrew.
I'm trying to do a (debug) build of libvirt from  a tarball outside of
homebrew. In this case the (keg only) readline isn't picked up.

Even better would be an option to specify the headers/library location.

What do you think?

Ruben




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