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build/1401: Getting rid of libreadline thru configure.


>Number:         1401
>Category:       build
>Synopsis:       Getting rid of libreadline thru configure.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep 30 18:38:00 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado <raul@pleyades.net>
>Release:        gdb-5.3
>Organization:
>Environment:
Linux 2.4.21, GCC 3.3, gdb configured as 'i686-pc-linux-gnu'
>Description:
Some people, like me, doesn't use libreadline in their systems,
and doesn't want libreadline support in gdb, so it would be
great if I could avoid libreadline linking using, for example,
--without-readline or --disable-readline, just like Bash does,
for example. 'libreadline' imposes a burden of almost 800kB in
the gdb binary, and for people like me is completely useless.

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
Unfortunately I'm not familiar with libreadline code, and
a really clean solution would involve conditional compilation
etc... (just like some ftp client out there), but another
solution would be to provide a dummy libreadline.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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