HIP-584 building libedit instead of libreadline

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Host Power Tools / HIP-584
CLONE - Compile Python against BSD readline

Type:              Improvement                       Status:        Open                       Assignee: Guy Rozendorn
Priority:          Trivial                           Resolution:    Unresolved                 Reporter: Jacob Broido
Affects Version/s:                                   Fix Version/s: 1.1.2
Components:                                                                                    Created: 2013-01-14 10:29
Labels:                                                                                        Updated: 2013-08-27 22:41

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Description:
Re-compile python to use BSD licensed replacement to readline(GPL).
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1817755/python-readline-license-horror-how-to-really-be-free

Comments:
Guy Rozendorn added a comment - 2013-08-27 22:41
grep'ping for '_-lreadline' in the build directory yields more parts than just Python.
anyway, I'm trying the search-and-replace trick on all of them now.
TRIVIAL fixing build
TRIVIAL fixing build
TRIVIAL fixing build
TRIVIAL libedit autoconf patch
TRIVIAL skip the readline hook on windows
TRIVIAL pre-configure-hook for editline
TRIVIAL autoreconf
TRIVIAL reverting changes for libedit, it doesn't wokr
zeromq-3.2.3
Finished release v2.7.5.3.

* release/v2.7.5.3:
  zeromq-3.2.3
  TRIVIAL reverting changes for libedit, it doesn't wokr
  TRIVIAL autoreconf
  TRIVIAL pre-configure-hook for editline
  TRIVIAL skip the readline hook on windows
  TRIVIAL libedit autoconf patch
  TRIVIAL fixing build
  TRIVIAL fixing build
  TRIVIAL fixing build
  HIP-584 building libedit instead of libreadline
HOSTDEV-1200 fixing LDFLAGS/rpath on Linux
HOSTDEV-1200 revert bootstrap
Finished release v2.7.5.4.

* release/v2.7.5.4:
  HOSTDEV-1200 revert bootstrap
  HOSTDEV-1200 fixing LDFLAGS/rpath on Linux
TRIVIAL changes to make build work on xcode 5
TRIVIAL local libev
Finished release v2.7.5.5.

* release/v2.7.5.5:
  TRIVIAL local libev
  TRIVIAL changes to make build work on xcode 5
TRIVIAL updated bootstrap
TRIVIAL gitignore
TRIVIAL gitignore