dnl Check for readline and dependencies dnl Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2013, 2014, 2021, Free Software Foundation, Inc. dnl dnl This file is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU dnl General Public License. As a special exception to the GNU General dnl Public License, this file may be distributed as part of a program dnl that contains a configuration script generated by Autoconf, under dnl the same distribution terms as the rest of that program. dnl dnl Defines HAVE_LIBREADLINE to 1 if a working readline setup is dnl found, and sets @LIBREADLINE@ to the necessary libraries. dnl dnl Based upon GNUPG_CHECK_READLINE. Many more years into the dnl twenty-first century, it is not enough to link a test program dnl with the readline library. On several systems, if readline is dnl not linked with the curses / termcap / whatever libraries, the dnl problem is only discovered at run time. Isn't that special? AC_DEFUN([GAWK_CHECK_READLINE], [ AC_ARG_WITH([readline], AS_HELP_STRING([--with-readline=DIR], [look for the readline library in DIR]), [_do_readline=$withval],[_do_readline=yes]) if test "$_do_readline" != "no" ; then if test -d "$withval" ; then CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS} -I$withval/include" LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -L$withval/lib" fi for _termcap in "" "-ltermcap" "-lcurses" "-lncurses" ; do _readline_save_libs=$LIBS _combo="-lreadline${_termcap:+ $_termcap}" LIBS="$LIBS $_combo" AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether readline via "$_combo" is present and sane]) AC_RUN_IFELSE( dnl source program: [AC_LANG_SOURCE([[#include #include #include #include #include int main(int argc, char **argv) { int fd; char *line; close(0); close(1); fd = open("/dev/null", 2); /* should get fd 0 */ dup(fd); line = readline("giveittome> "); /* some printfs don't handle NULL for %s */ printf("got <%s>\n", line ? line : "(NULL)"); return 0; }]])], dnl action if true: [_found_readline=yes], dnl action if false: [_found_readline=no], dnl action if cross compiling: [AC_LINK_IFELSE( [AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[#include #include #include ]], dnl includes dnl function body [[ int fd; char *line; close(0); close(1); fd = open("/dev/null", 2); /* should get fd 0 */ dup(fd); line = readline("giveittome> "); /* some printfs don't handle NULL for %s */ printf("got <%s>\n", line ? line : "(NULL)"); ]])], dnl action if found: [_found_readline=yes], dnl action if not found: [_found_readline=no] )] ) AC_MSG_RESULT([$_found_readline]) LIBS=$_readline_save_libs if test $_found_readline = yes ; then case $host_os in *bsd* ) AC_CHECK_LIB(termcap, tgetent, _combo="$_combo -ltermcap") ;; esac AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LIBREADLINE,1, [Define to 1 if you have a fully functional readline library.]) AC_SUBST(LIBREADLINE,$_combo) AC_CHECK_LIB(readline, history_list, [AC_DEFINE(HAVE_HISTORY_LIST, 1, [Do we have history_list?])], [], [$_combo]) break fi done unset _termcap unset _readline_save_libs unset _combo unset _found_readline fi ])dnl