[m-dev.] readline problems

[Fergus Henderson]

On 08-Apr-1999, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
>  #
>  AC_DEFUN(MERCURY_CHECK_READLINE,
>  [
> +if test -f .noreadline

If you were planning on committing this change, then I think it would be
better to use the standard autoconf configure option `--without-<PACKAGE>'
rather than checking the existence of a special file.

This is quite easy to do, I think: just add

	AC_ARG_WITH(readline,
	[  --without-readline      do not use the GNU readline package])

and then change the above test to

	if test "$with_readline" = "no"; then

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