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fair enough. So. Amend my previous mail to:

"Get the source code for readline and attempt to compile it."

and add:

"If that doesn't work, see if you can compile vtysh/zebra without readline support - this is sometimes a configure option, and some packages include their own internal stripped-down readline. If that doesn't work... possibly make your own stripped down readline that will work with it :) "

sorry for the unwarranted rant :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Greco [mailto:jgreco@ns.sol.net]
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 11:44 AM
To: Scott Stone
Cc: mikeliu; quagga-dev@lists.quagga.net; zebra@zebra.org
Subject: Re: [zebra 20754] Re: readline library in uClinux


> what's uClinux and why does it have its own libc? was the existing =
> wheel not ROUND enough for someone? Or is this just extreme-case =
> NIH-ism (not-invented-hereism)?
> =20
> try getting the readline library sources out of a normal distro and =
> compiling them on uClinux... if the uClibc implements things along the =
> same lines as glibc, it should compile ok.

For the Google- (or domain-) impaired, uClinux is an embedded version of
Linux appropriate for various appliance-type devices, etc.

http://www.uClinux.org/description/

I don't know anything about it as I prefer FreeBSD, but it seems obvious
that you wouldn't put a full-blown libc with all the bloat on an embedded
system. For that matter, I hadn't even heard of it prior to this, but I
had already guessed at the above from the previous message.

... JG
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