Why xfs_<utils> not 'readline' w/line-edit & history enabled? (+attachment)

[Dave Chinner]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 03:52:08PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
> Dave Chinner wrote:
> >Patches welcome.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Dave.
> ---
> Gee, that's a hard one... (build and tested that it was included)...

Actually, it's a lot more than just changing the default. If the
build system doesn't have libreadline/libedit/libtermcap installed,
the build will fail.

You need to add detection of the libraries' presence on the build
system, and then the "--enable-*" options can go away entirely.
See, for example, the way libuuid is detected in
m4/package_uuiddev.m4....

Also, libedit is only supposed to be used as a fallback option if
libreadline is not available.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com