Re: [Bug-readline] Use of autoheader

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/27/14, 3:46 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to propose dropping the hand-maintained config.h.in and
> instead use autoheader, adding the description parameters to
> configure.ac as required.
> 
> As an example of why I think this should happen, grep the source tree
> for STRUCT_DIRENT:

Thanks for the report, but this example is a red herring.  That's a bash
header file, included only for completeness.  The only symbol that readline
uses is the D_NAMLEN, and its absence results only in a small efficiency
loss.

I'd be happy to look at your patch, though.

Chet
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