[Bug-readline] Re: [bug-inetutils] inetutils-1.8: ftp build error

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> The problem is that readline 6.x exports `xmalloc' and `xrealloc', and
> it causes a linker error when used together with gnulib.

According to what Chet Ramey said in
  <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2009-06/msg00003.html>
it should be possible to override 'xmalloc' and 'xrealloc' in gnulib, and
libreadline should then use the definitions from gnulib. Recall that gnulib
links statically into the program; gnulib is not compiled into a shared
library.

Bruno