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+dnl Borut Razem
+dnl
+dnl This macro checks for the presence of the readline library.
+dnl It works also in cross-compilation environment.
+dnl
+dnl To get it into the aclocal.m4 dnl file, do this:
+dnl   aclocal -I . --verbose
+dnl
+dnl The --verbose will show all of the files that are searched
+dnl for .m4 macros.
+
+AC_DEFUN([wi_LIB_READLINE], [
+  dnl check for the readline.h header file
+
+  AC_CHECK_HEADER(readline/readline.h)
+
+  if test "$ac_cv_header_readline_readline_h" = yes; then
+    dnl check the readline version
+
+    cat > conftest.$ac_ext <<EOF
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <readline/readline.h>
+wi_LIB_READLINE_VERSION RL_VERSION_MAJOR RL_VERSION_MINOR
+EOF
+
+    wi_READLINE_VERSION=$($CPP $CPPFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext | sed -n -e "s/^wi_LIB_READLINE_VERSION  *\([[0-9\]][[0-9\]]*\)  *\([[0-9\]][[0-9\]]*\)$/\1.\2/p")
+    rm -rf conftest*
+
+    if test -n "$wi_READLINE_VERSION"; then
+      wi_MAJOR=$(expr $wi_READLINE_VERSION : '\([[0-9]][[0-9]]*\)\.')
+      wi_MINOR=$(expr $wi_READLINE_VERSION : '[[0-9]][[0-9]]*\.\([[0-9]][[0-9]]*$\)')
+      if test $wi_MINOR -lt 10; then
+        wi_MINOR=$(expr $wi_MINOR \* 10)
+      fi
+      wi_READLINE_VERSION=$(expr $wi_MAJOR \* 100 + $wi_MINOR)
+    else
+      wi_READLINE_VERSION=-1
+    fi
+
+    dnl check for the readline library
+
+    ac_save_LIBS="$LIBS"
+    # Note: $LIBCURSES is permitted to be empty.
+
+    for LIBREADLINE in "-lreadline.dll" "-lreadline" "-lreadline $LIBCURSES" "-lreadline -ltermcap" "-lreadline -lncurses" "-lreadline -lcurses"
+    do
+      AC_MSG_CHECKING([for GNU Readline library $LIBREADLINE])
+
+      LIBS="$ac_save_LIBS $LIBREADLINE"
+
+      AC_TRY_LINK([
+        /* includes */
+        #include <stdio.h>
+        #include <readline/readline.h>
+      ],[
+        /* function-body */
+        int dummy = rl_completion_append_character; /* rl_completion_append_character appeared in version 2.1 */
+        readline(NULL);
+      ],[
+        wi_cv_lib_readline=yes
+        AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
+      ],[
+        wi_cv_lib_readline=no
+        AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
+      ])
+
+      if test "$wi_cv_lib_readline" = yes; then
+        AC_SUBST(LIBREADLINE)
+        AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(HAVE_LIBREADLINE, $wi_READLINE_VERSION, [Readline])
+        break
+      fi
+    done
+
+    LIBS="$ac_save_LIBS"
+  fi
+])