Re: update bash packageZ

[david@elo.ods.com (David Engel)]

> > Bash checks out as far as I can tell with Ray's new readline package
> > so I've rebuilt it to once again to use the shared readline.  The
> > depends line in the control file was updated to ensure that the proper
> > readline is available.
> 
> This still isn't ideal.  The readline library has some shell specific
> code that isn't invoked if libreadline is a shared lib.  Look at the
> code inside the SHELL ifdefs.
> 
> If you really want to have bash work with a shared libreadline,
> introduce a new global variable into libreadline, rl_shell.  Replace
> '#ifdef SHELL' with 'if (rl_shell)'.   Then bash can set this
> variable.

I don't have time to look into this.  Ray, would you like to do it?

BTW, David Boswell (the official maintainer for bash) doesn't seem to
be around.  Guy, you seem to be pretty knowledgable about it.  Would
you like to take over bash?

David
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