[m-rev.] for review: mention editline in INSTALL file
Julien Fischer
jfischer at opturion.com
Tue Jun 19 13:52:42 AEST 2018
For review by anyone.
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Mention editline in INSTALL file.
.INSTALL.in:
As above.
Julien.
diff --git a/.INSTALL.in b/.INSTALL.in
index 26195ac..8a2c1f2 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 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/>. 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 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/>. The source distribution for
+# NetBSD Editline is available from <https://thrysoee.dk/editline/>.
+# 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.)
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