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rlwrap is a 'readline wrapper', a small utility that uses the GNU Readline library
to allow the editing of keyboard input for any command.
The input history is preserved even across different invocations, history search
and completion are supported

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Maintainer: @jpellegrini

Description:

rlwrap is a 'readline wrapper', a small utility that uses the GNU Readline library
to allow the editing of keyboard input for any command.
The input history is preserved even across different invocations, history search
and completion are supported


🧪 Run Testing Details

  • OpenWrt Version: 24.10.4
  • OpenWrt Target/Subtarget: ath79/generic
  • OpenWrt Device: TP-Link Archer C7 v4

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  • I have reviewed the CONTRIBUTING.md file for detailed contributing guidelines.

@jpellegrini jpellegrini force-pushed the rlwrap branch 3 times, most recently from 71a6a19 to f3d750b Compare November 25, 2025 10:19
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mips_24kc fails with

Testing package rlwrap in version 0.48 from utils/rlwrap
No pre-test.sh script available
(1/4) Installing terminfo (6.4-r3)
terminfo-6.4-r3.post-install: Executing script...
(2/4) Installing libncurses6 (6.4-r3)
Bus error (core dumped)
Error: Process completed with exit code 138.

Why?

The CI test script is just

#!/bin/sh

rlwrap -v 2>&1 | grep "$2"

Can't see what could be wrong.

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The CI test script is just

Although it seems that the problem is when installing libncurses (?)

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when installing libncurses

I think this problem happened with other packages too; seems like a bug (?) in libncurses

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I believe the MIPS issue in the tests here are the same in #27978 and #27979 -- in the tests, when unpacking libncurses, there is a bus error.

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Other than that nitpick, LGTM.

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jpellegrini commented Dec 2, 2025

Other than that nitpick, LGTM.

When I squash, do I keep your "Co-authored-by:" field? I know it's just two a few lines, but I feel I need to ask.

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It's not important, so up to you.

rlwrap is a 'readline wrapper', a small utility that uses the GNU
Readline library to allow the editing of keyboard input for any
command.
The input history is preserved even across different invocations,
history search and completion are supported

Co-authored-by: George Sapkin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jeronimo Pellegrini <[email protected]>
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