PSARC/2008/315 - autogen and guile

[Brian Utterback]

Danek Duvall wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 04:34:12PM +0800, Halton Huo wrote:
>
>   
>> ??I'm okay to not shipping it. Seems ?libguilereadline is different
>> between mine and yours.
>>
>> My ?libguilereadline is not link against readline, 
>> $file /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-17.so.17.0.3
>> /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-17.so.17.0.3:	ELF 32-bit LSB dynamic lib
>> 80386 Version 1, dynamically linked, not stripped
>>
>> Strange thing is when I run
>> 'ldd /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-17.so.17.0.3', there is no depend on
>> libs.
>>     
>
> Okay.  The ldd output Steve sent me a while back included libreadline in
> the ldd output.
>
> It doesn't really matter much to the ARC whether you're linking with
> readline or not -- it's purely a legal issue.
>
> Danek
>   
That's because in the latest guile source code, it does not link in 
libreadline, it has a copy of readline included in the distribution 
which is statically linked in. And the readline code included is quite 
clearly labeled with the GPL and not the LGPL as the top level directory 
is.

Brian Utterback