[Help-bash] What are the differences between bundled and separate readline?

[Richard Michael]

Hello,

I became curious about the version of readline bundled with bash. As
lib/readline/ChangeLog is not up to date, I compared commit logs for
both projects. It appears they are very similar, but there are
occasional differences.

Are there differences which would be compelling enough to link bash
against the standalone readline? (I'm not asking about reasons to
have a statically linked bash executable, but rather about the
functionality of readline itself.)

Thank you,
Richard

[Chet Ramey]

Post by Richard Michael
Hello,
I became curious about the version of readline bundled with bash. As
lib/readline/ChangeLog is not up to date, I compared commit logs for
both projects. It appears they are very similar, but there are
occasional differences.

There aren't any differences; they are built from the same source. The
library version includes the callback interface, but the version
included with bash and linked internally doesn't need it.