Re: Emacs AngeFTP fails on macOS 10.14 with GNU inetutils FTP

[Alex Bochannek]

Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:

> I don't really know what to try -- debugging stdin/stdout and
> sub-process behaviour is tricky.  If you can reproduce any difference
> between libreadline-ftp and libedit-ftp in some other way, that may
> help.  It could also be a bug in emacs.  FWIW, I found a Mac and was
> able to build inetutils on it and as you said, ftp works fine
> standalone.  If you don't come up with anything more, having this e-mail
> thread document the behaviour is a good result anyway, in case anyone
> else discovers it in the future.

I keep debugging what's going on there. I have found an interesting,
platform-dependent behavior in Emacs that may or may not be related to
this problem.

In the meantime, it may make sense to either change the autoconf scripts
to force a GNU readline dependency on systems that have a BSD editline
or at least introduce a GNU readline dependency to the Inetutils
distributed by Homebrew for macOS.

I have also submitted a documentation patch against Ange-FTP that
suggests a user configures '-e' for FTP clients that use editline.

-- 
Alex.