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[Bug build/17077] --with-system-readline uses bundled readline include files


https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17077

--- Comment #5 from Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to dilyan.palauzov@aegee.org from comment #3)
> The ones who can compile gdb, shall also be able to compile and install
> libreadline.

Additionally IIRC there was a resistance against any mandatory external
dependencies for the sourceware sourcetree.  The reasoning IIRC was that it is
inconvenient for cross-arch bootstraps but GDB does not belong to the
bootstraping compiler chain.  So IMO it is wrong but it is so.

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