[Patches] [ python-Patches-1435651 ] Detect incomplete readline implementation

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Patches item #1435651, was opened at 2006-02-21 05:33
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Category: Modules
Group: Python 2.5
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Rejected
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Skip Montanaro (montanaro)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Detect incomplete readline implementation

Initial Comment:
Here's a patch for setup.py to detect  BSD-ish readlines that
don't have the full suite of readline/history functions needed
by Python (and provided by GNU readline).

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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2007-02-19 11:33

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I'm rejecting this patch as out-of-date. r42562 added a similar change,
although restricted to OSX.

If anybody wants to work on it again, I recommend to add checks for
exported functions to configure, then query them in setup.py (doing it in
distutils is probably impractical, as you would want to cache the result,
just as configure output is cached in config.status).

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Comment By: Brett Cannon (bcannon)
Date: 2006-02-21 05:50

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You mentioned on python-dev and in the diff that autoconf
could detect this better.  Would adding something to
configure and having distutils.sysconfig.get_config_var()
see if it is set be a better solution?

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