[m-dev.] for review: add readline support to mdb

[Tyson Dowd]

On 22-Mar-1999, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
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> Add GNU readline support to the debugger.

Just one question first -- why include readline in the source distribution?

Readline is not exactly uncommon, I would expect it to be installed
already on any system that has built their own gdb or bash for instance.

I don't really like the idea of installing readline as part of the
installation of Mercury -- if you install with prefix of /usr or
/usr/local you might overwrite your current installation of readline.

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