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

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/25/10 2:00 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 7/25/10 10:33 AM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>>    > This is a known bug, the reason if I recall is that readline
>>    > exports xmalloc and xrealloc is to allow programs to hook their
>>    > own version into readline.  So the readline maintainer has
>>    > declined any fixes for this.
>>
>>    This is a severe bug. It makes readline useless for any project
>>    that uses gnulib.
> 
> Maybe.  There are workarounds, as I detailed in a message to bug-readline
> in June.

I looked and figured out the root cause -- gnulib doesn't implement xfree.
I will put a workaround in the next version of readline.

Chet
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