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

[Fergus Henderson]

On 25-Mar-1999, Thomas Charles Conway <conway at hydra.cs.mu.oz.au> wrote:
> 
> For users who want to install Mercury as an rpm or a deb, then
> there is no point since the package system takes care of things.

Oh, I certainly agree that there is no good reason to include
readline in the rpm or deb distributions.
The question is about the ordinary (tar.gz) source and
binary distributions.

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