config BR2_PACKAGE_LIBEDIT bool "libedit" select BR2_PACKAGE_NCURSES help The editline library (from BSD) provides generic line editing and history functions. It slightly resembles GNU readline. The official homepage is at: http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-5-0/src/lib/libedit/ Jess Thrysoee maintains an autotoolified packaged, which we use in Buildroot as it makes it much simpler than using the upstream sources which require pmake: http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/