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AJ Reins wrote: > > This might be the reason that the 'bash people' (which are the same as the 'readline > people') put a version of readline inside the bash source, and that this version of > the readline library is slightly different than the version that is external? > So, how about some documentation of that fact: ------------------------- --- INSTALL.orig Sat Jan 20 01:15:55 2001 +++ INSTALL Sat Jan 20 01:20:27 2001 @@ -224,7 +224,11 @@ `--with-installed-readline' Define this to make Bash link with a locally-installed version of Readline rather than the version in `lib/readline'. This works - only with Readline 4.1 and later versions. + only with Readline 4.1 and later versions. Bash calls functions + that are technically private within readline, so this option + will not work if the locally-installed version of the + Readline library hides private functions from calling programs + (e.g. Win32 or Cygwin dll's). `--with-purify' Define this to use the Purify memory allocation checker from ------------------------- --Chuck
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