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From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: --with-libedit-preferred is bad design
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In response to Re: --with-libedit-preferred is bad design  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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On 7/12/2013 7:10 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
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> That would hardly be only true of libedit, on Apple.
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> It's also broken on some Red Hat versions, last I checked.

Last I heard, libedit was completely borked. Here is a report (two years 
old) of still broken libedit in Debian:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608442

IMO, we either need to take up the mantle of libedit maintenance or we 
need to remove it from a configure option, it doesn't work anyway.

JD


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