[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] dash: enable line editting if libedit is selected.

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Sep 28 06:59:57 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 17:19:28 -0300 (BRT), Carlos Santos wrote:

> > This really looks like a "personal preference" configuration, that is
> > more relevant in a custom rootfs overlay, no?  
> 
> This is the default behavior of BusyBox's shell, which is used in 98.73%
> of the Buldroot installations, according to my statistics factory, so I
> think we should use it by default.

Hum, OK.

> >> +ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBEDIT),y)
> >> +DASH_DEPENDENCIES += libedit
> >> +DASH_CONF_OPTS += --with-libedit
> >> +DASH_POST_INSTALL_TARGET_HOOKS += DASH_INSTALL_PROFILE  
> > 
> > What about --without-libedit in an else case ?  
> 
> In the case else there is no libedit to which not to link. :-)

We always try to explicitly disable features, so that configure scripts
don't misdetect a system-installed libedit for example.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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