Re: Why does bison link with readline?

Paul Smith <[email protected]> Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:21:26 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.parsers.bison.bugs
Organization	GNU's Not UNIX!
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Mon, 2020-10-12 at 12:10 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> Is there a reason that bison has -lreadline to the link line?  I
> cannot find any code anywhere in the bison program that invokes
> readline() or tests any preprocessor option specifying whether
> readline is linked.

Making this change still allowed bison to link and run correctly for
me:

--- a/src/local.mk      2020-08-03 10:36:58.000000000 -0400
+++ b/src/local.mk      2020-10-12 12:14:17.668301244 -0400
@@ -143,7 +143,6 @@
   $(LIB_SETLOCALE_NULL)                         \
   $(LIBICONV)                                   \
   $(LIBINTL)                                    \
-  $(LIBREADLINE)                                \
   $(LIBTEXTSTYLE)