IOCSH commands stopped echoing

[Andrew Johnson]

Mark Rivers reported that a VxWorks startup script which switches to iocsh for some commands stops echoing those commands with EPICS 7, although the prompts are still displayed for each line.

I simplified his report to loading this script after booting an IOC:

# Echo test
iocsh
# Comment
exit
# End test

Under 3.15.5:

iocanj> < echo.cmd
# Echo test
iocsh
epics> # Comment
epics> exit
value = 0 = 0x0
# End test

Under 7.0.1:

iocanj> < echo.cmd
# Echo test
iocsh
epics> epics> value = 0 = 0x0

[Andrew Johnson (anj)]

Also affects Base-3.16.1.

It seems that we actually stopped building the VxWorks-specific implementation of the readline code that calls ledLib, thus on VxWorks we're currently only using the basic implementation with no line editing or command-line history. This was due to a missing build configuration parameter when I reorganized the epicsReadline code (there is also a typo in the vxWorks/osdReadline.c file).

This bug also demonstrates that our basic readline implementation behaves differently than the others, in that it doesn't echo input that it receives from a script. I briefly thought about this, but decided not to fix this aspect of the problem.