readline support in samba

[samba-technical at thewrittenword.com]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 04:59:38PM +1100, Andrew Tridgell wrote:
> I'm about to remove all the readline support in Samba again as it is
> badly broken. I've done this once before but it was (erroneously)
> restored by someone else.
> 
> If you want readline support in Samba then either volunteer to fix it
> or find someone willing to fix/maintain it. Problems with the current
> code include:
> 
> - it links in the readline library to all progs. It is ridiculous for
>   smbd to have readline linked in.
> 
> - it fails to link other necessary libraries. On my box it fails to
>   add ncurses, so Samba doesn't build without manual Makefile editing.

Ugh. I submitted a patch for this April of last year against 2.0.7pre
and it never got applied. Can you take a look now?

See:
  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=samba-technical&m=95569411200677&w=2

-- 
albert chin (china at thewrittenword.com)