Re: Tiger and libreadline
Re: Tiger and libreadline
- Subject: Re: Tiger and libreadline
- From: "Peter O'Gorman" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 13:13:15 +0900
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David Leimbach wrote:
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| The GPL creates business problems that the BSDL [and LGPL in this
| case] does not. It goes beyond "philosophy". The fact is libedit is
| designed to replace libreadline. So the symlink makes perfect
| technical sense. The problem is it doesn't offer 100% libreadline
| compatiblity yet.
This is totally beside the point. No other *BSD ships a libreadline in
/usr/lib that links to libedit. FreeBSD ships GNU readline, NetBSD only has
libedit in /usr/lib (but it does have /usr/include/readline/readline.h and
/usr/include/readline/history.h). The problem is not that libedit does not
offer 100% GNU readline compatibility, it is that Apple sees fit to pretend
that it does by including the symlink.
|
| You are free to install and link against libreadline if you choose.
| Alternatively you could hack on libedit [probably not what you want to do :)].
This is crap, it is far easier for a user who wishes to do so to link
~/lib/libreadline.dylib to /usr/lib/libedit.dylib than it is to remove the link.
|
| Claiming that the symlink has no purpose is a bit subjective I'd say.
| For me I'd want software that CAN link libedit instead of libreadline
| to link libedit instead. To me that symlink saves me a lot of crap of
| fixing the project I wanted to build/link to use the correct library.
| I agree it's ugly and that it's a workaround but good luck getting
| every project that fits that pattern to bend to your will.
See above. You could easily put such a link in the build dir.
Peter
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Peter O'Gorman - http://www.pogma.com
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