From c01c56abecbb62cef5adb6f7e8bbf3c149e9e594 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julien Fischer Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 21:17:57 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention editline in INSTALL file. .INSTALL.in: As above. --- .INSTALL.in | 19 +++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/.INSTALL.in b/.INSTALL.in index 26195acb6..8a2c1f20a 100755 --- a/.INSTALL.in +++ b/.INSTALL.in @@ -4,14 +4,16 @@ # # You need GNU C (version 3.4.x or later -- note however that version 4.0 will # not work) and GNU Make (3.69 or later). -# Make sure that they are somewhere in your PATH. It's also helpful if you -# have GNU Readline installed in one of the standard locations (normally -# /usr/local or /usr), but this is not essential. +# Make sure that they are somewhere in your PATH. It is also helpful if you +# have GNU Readline or NetBSD Editline installed in one of the standard +# locations (normally /usr/local or /usr), but this is not essential. # # The source distributions for GNU C, GNU Make, and GNU Readline are -# available from . Binaries for these are -# included in almost all Linux distributions, Mac OS X and also in the Cygwin -# and MinGW distributions for Windows (see README.MS-Windows). +# available from . The source distribution for +# NetBSD Editline is available from . +# Binaries for the above are included in almost all Linux distributions, +# Mac OS X and also in the Cygwin and MinGW distributions for Windows (see +# README.MS-Windows). # # Step 0. Extract the files from the gzipped tar archive. # @@ -193,6 +195,11 @@ make install # system would be able to support it. The default is to enable the # deep profiler if the system has the required features. # +# The --without-readline and --without-editline options prevent the +# use of GNU Readline and NetBSD Editline with the debugger. +# Note that GNU Readline will be used by preference to Editline if +# the former is present and if --without-readline is not given. +# # If you are short on RAM, you can add -DSMALL_CONFIG to the CFLAGS # line in the file boehm_gc/Makefile. (This tells the garbage # collector to tune itself for small physical memory.)