libreadline.dll.a missing functions.

[Charles Wilson]

AJ Reins wrote:
> 
> This might be the reason that the 'bash people' (which are the same as the 'readline
> people') put a version of readline inside the bash source, and that this version of
> the readline library is slightly different than the version that is external?
> 

So, how about some documentation of that fact: 

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--- INSTALL.orig        Sat Jan 20 01:15:55 2001
+++ INSTALL     Sat Jan 20 01:20:27 2001
@@ -224,7 +224,11 @@
 `--with-installed-readline'
      Define this to make Bash link with a locally-installed version of
      Readline rather than the version in `lib/readline'.  This works
-     only with Readline 4.1 and later versions.
+     only with Readline 4.1 and later versions.  Bash calls functions
+     that are technically private within readline, so this option 
+     will not work if the locally-installed version of the 
+     Readline library hides private functions from calling programs
+     (e.g. Win32 or Cygwin dll's).
 
 `--with-purify'
      Define this to use the Purify memory allocation checker from
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--Chuck