I've started work on a module that will be a command line utility into DAX. Right now it does nothing, but the autoconf skeleton is there. It has brought up an interesting problem though. It introduced a library (libreadline) that I don't want to have to depend on. It won't use a lot of the really fancy features of readline but I figured if it was there we should use it. I don't want to depend on it however. I'd rather replace the code with gets() type calls instead of failing to build but I don't know how to do that.
I really need some help with autoconf. I think that I may be starting to paint myself into a corner, but I don't want to spend a lot of time learning a tool when I could be getting the program to work. If anybody knows autoconf and would be willing to look through the code and help me make sure that I don't get myself in trouble I would greatly appreciate it.