MySQL Bugs: #1550: Compilation failure when using --with-readline option.

Bug #1550	Compilation failure when using --with-readline option.
Submitted:	14 Oct 2003 16:31	Modified:	23 Oct 2003 8:40
Reporter:	[ name withheld ]	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Command-line Clients	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	4.1	OS:	Linux (Linux (Red Hat 9))
Assigned to:	Lenz Grimmer	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
When configured with --with-readline compilation fails with: 
 
config.status: error: cannot find input file: 
cmd-line-utils/readline/Makefile.in 
 
(Actually all I _really_ want is for the delete key to work with the command 
line mysql client. Right now all it spits out is "~". I assumed it was because 
readline was not used.) 

How to repeat:
./configure --enable-shared --without-server --enable-thread-safe-client 
--enable-local-infile --with-readline 

Suggested fix:
If the delete key worked this would be moot.

There are my notes:

to uf069@victoria.tc.ca:

1. 'delete' successfully works with default configure options
2. if you want to use readline, you can use bitkeeper tree

to Lenz Grimmer:

Source RPM from 

http://www.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-4.1/MySQL-4.1.0-0.src.rpm/from/http://mysql.tsuren.net/

doesn't have readline at all!

Backspace works, delete key does not work with the default installation.

I finally got the delete key to work by adding the --without-readline and  
--without-libedit to the configuration with the rpm spec file. The rebuild 
definitely wasn't trival (ie lot's of problems rebuilding on a RH9 system).

This should have been fixed in the meanwhile. You can get more recent 4.1
source tarballs from our daily snapshot page at

http://downloads.mysql.com/snapshots.php

The tarball also includes the RPM spec file. Please give that one a try - it
should include both readline and libedit now.