[Simh] Readline support gone?

[Philipp Hachtmann]

Hi folks,

I just wanted to migrate to SIMH 3.8.
When I defined HAVE_READLINE, I got a warning. After investigating, I 
found out that the libreadline support has been removed from scp.c.
But in line 3078 ff there's still the following:
> #if defined (HAVE_READLINE)
> add_history (cptr);
> 
> #endif

Who has screwed the readline support?!?

I once wrote a nice little patch and sent it to RMS - but he refused it 
because it's "too much Linux dependent". My patch added full readline 
support including a saved history etc. Later I noticed the new readline 
support in SIMH. It was a bit broken and without saved history, but it 
worked. And now it's gone again. WHY?

Another issue is that I once also reorganized the source code and wrote 
a completely new set of makefiles, speeding up things a lot. Did not 
seem to interest someone in this community.
The SIMH makefile is written like a batch file, must have been written 
by someone who is clueless about what a make program is made for.

I really like to help getting things going, but I still have no clue how 
to participate. Every effort I took in the past has been silently 
ignored. I'm a bit sorry about that fact.

Best regards,
Philipp





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