Re: Re: 9.1 (git head) does not compile using --with-libedit-preferred on Ubuntu 10.10

On 16/02/11 15:59, Greg Stark wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:43 AM, Mark Kirkwood
> <mark(dot)kirkwood(at)catalyst(dot)net(dot)nz> wrote:
>> What's this libbsd then eh? Sure enough it is this guy that defines these
>> symbols. So it is the way it is being built on the Ubuntu (or Debian)
>> platform.
> Oh, for what it's worth there are several different libedits out there
> with various related heritages. It's possible you're looking at two
> completely different packages.
>
> On Debian /usr/share/doc/<package>/README.Debian is supposed to say
> where the upstream source was.
>

Yeah, good point:

$ dpkg -S /usr/lib/libedit.so.2
libedit2: /usr/lib/libedit.so.2

$ aptitude show libedit2
Package: libedit2
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 2.11-20080614-1build1
Priority: standard
Section: libs
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss(at)lists(dot)ubuntu(dot)com>
Uncompressed Size: 201k
Depends: libbsd0 (>= 0.0), libc6 (>= 2.11), libncurses5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3)
Description: BSD editline and history libraries
The editline library provides generic line editing and history functions.

It slightly resembles GNU readline
Homepage:
http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-5-0/src/lib/libedit/