Re: [Bug-readline] libreadline.so has rl_sort_completion_matche instead of rl_sort_completion_matches

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/26/13 1:34 PM, Sébastien Boisvert wrote:

>>> The header has the correct name (with a s):
>>
>> This is not reflected by the source code:
>>
>> $ pwd
>> /usr/src/local/readline/readline-6.2-patched
>> $ grep rl_sort_completion_matche *.[ch]
>> complete.c:int rl_sort_completion_matches = 1;
>> complete.c:  if (i && rl_sort_completion_matches)
>> complete.c:  if (rl_ignore_completion_duplicates == 0 &&
>> rl_sort_completion_matches)
>> readline.h:extern int rl_sort_completion_matches;
>>
>> It's not clear what the problem is, but it appears to have been introduced
>> by the library creation process.
>>
> 
> 
> I agree.
> 
> Do you have an hypothesis (like the version of ld or something like that) ?

No idea.  Some kind of limit on the length of an identifier for the linker
to consider it unique or valid?  That would seem strange.

Chet
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