Ya know, you have the tools to do this yourself...

>Can any kind soul scan NetBSD source tree's Makefiles for any inclusion of 
>readline.a for me ? The only app using readline in tree seems to be gdb,
>but I would like to be sure.

[michaelv@MindBender]~> find /usr/src/ -name '*.[ch]' -or -name Makefile -print | xargs fgrep -i readline
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/xgdb/Makefile:         funmap.o history.o keymaps.o readline.o
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/readline/Makefile:LIB=         readline
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/readline/Makefile:SRCS=                funmap.c history.c keymaps.c readline.c vi_mode.c tilde.c
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/gdb/Makefile:LIBREADLINE!=cd $(.CURDIR)/../readline; \
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/gdb/Makefile:  printf "xxx: .MAKE\n\t@echo \$${.OBJDIR}/libreadline.a\n" | ${MAKE} -s -f-
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/gdb/Makefile:          -I$(.CURDIR)/../readline -I$(.CURDIR)/../include \
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/gdb/Makefile:LDADD+=           $(LIBBFD) $(LIBREADLINE) $(LIBIBERTY)
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/gdb/Makefile:DPADD+=           $(LIBBFD) $(LIBREADLINE) $(LIBIBERTY)
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/Makefile:SUBDIR=       bfd readline libiberty gdb

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  Michael L. VanLoon                           michaelv@MindBender.serv.net
      Contract software development for Windows NT, Windows 95 and Unix.
             Windows NT and Unix server development in C++ and C.

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