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| author | Niklas Hambüchen <mail@nh2.me> | 2019-07-03 01:46:07 +0200 |
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| committer | Niklas Hambüchen <mail@nh2.me> | 2019-07-03 04:32:25 +0200 |
| commit | d203c554faa00fec55377d6640c8fb335a611a09 (patch) | |
| tree | 027ee0c3829aceffccb035af78230216708cf870 /src/nix/repl.cc | |
| parent | b49c3a9db516a87d38476966eff9994c13c5acf6 (diff) | |
Fix C++ compatibility with older editline versions.
For example, Ubuntu 16.04 and many similar long-term-support distros
have older versions.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/nix/repl.cc')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/nix/repl.cc | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/nix/repl.cc b/src/nix/repl.cc index d8f812149..f857b2e89 100644 --- a/src/nix/repl.cc +++ b/src/nix/repl.cc @@ -9,7 +9,14 @@ #include <readline/history.h> #include <readline/readline.h> #else +// editline < 1.15.2 don't wrap their API for C++ usage +// (added in https://github.com/troglobit/editline/commit/91398ceb3427b730995357e9d120539fb9bb7461). +// This results in linker errors due to to name-mangling of editline C symbols. +// For compatibility with these versions, we wrap the API here +// (wrapping multiple times on newer versions is no problem). +extern "C" { #include <editline.h> +} #endif #include "shared.hh" |