Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 3/3] m4: Check for rl_completion_quote_character
On Sun, 2018-01-14 at 14:46 +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
Apparently we can't assume that people run readline recent
enough
to have rl_completion_quote_character (added in readline-5.0
released in 2011). However, we can't compile without it. So if
not present, disable readline.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn(a)redhat.com>
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Frankly, I hate this patch. How far into the past do we want to go when
introducing something new? 10 years? 15? I've only written this patch
because travis is unhappy without it (I'm looking at you Mac OS/X).
The problem with macOS is that Apple is shipping very old releases
of a lot of GNU software. Compare that with FreeBSD, which got rid
of basically all GNU software from the base system but still makes
(modern versions of) it available through ports.
macOS has brew, though. I've kicked off a Travis build with this
commit[1] included, let's see whether configure picks up readline
installed from brew instead of the obsolete one available in the
base system.
If it does, then we can omit your patch and... Document the version
requirement somehow? If we used pkg-config to detect readline
availability, that would be easy. Alas, readline only introduced
pkg-config support relatively recently, so we can't do that.
[1]
https://github.com/andreabolognani/libvirt/commit/f2ca5da50609b814edbbb73...
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