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Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:56:20 -0500

On Friday 24 September 2010 15:29:37 J. Lewis Muir wrote:
>
> It would probably be nicer if the vlinac binary package could contain
> the readline library or have it disabled so that a user doesn't have to
> install any extra software.  Including it is more work, and I don't know
> if licensing-wise it's OK, but it would be nicer.

Readline is a GNU library, licensed under the GPL last time I checked, so the 
only way I could include it would be if the vlinac as a whole is distributed 
under the GPL (I don't have a problem with that, but it's Ned's code so he 
gets to decide).  Actually strictly speaking since the binaries are built to 
dynamically link with readline it probably needs to be GPL anyway.

Note that there are copies of libXm.3.dylib for darwin-x86 and darwin-ppc in 
the distribution already, my scripts might not have LD_LIBRARY_PATH set 
properly to use them though, or maybe they need to do something else for the 
Mac to make use of them (advice and patches welcome, I don't have a standalone 
machine to test them with).

- Andrew
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