Have --enable-editline fail rather than emit a warning which would easily be overlooked by automated builds. The error message explains a potential workaround for activating libedit.

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auto.def

@@ -776,13 +776,14 @@ proc sqlite-check-line-editing {} {
     # --enable-editline to do exactly that but it seems likely to
     # break on systems for which which HAVE_EDITLINE=1 previously
     # worked.
-    hwaci-indented-notice {
-      WARNING: the --enable-editline flag is not supported due to
+    hwaci-indented-notice -error {
+      ERROR: the --enable-editline flag is not supported due to
       non-availability of systems which have it in a form which the
       sqlite3 CLI shell expects to see. On some systems this can be
-      worked around by passing --with-readline-ldflags=-ledit instead of
-      --enable-editline, which will attempt to use the readline.h
-      supplied by libreadline but link against -ledit.
+      worked around by passing --with-readline-ldflags=-ledit instead
+      of --enable-editline, which will attempt to use the readline.h
+      supplied by libreadline but link against -ledit. On systems
+      tested so far, that works.
     }
     return "none"
   } elseif {![opt-bool readline]} {

autosetup/hwaci-common.tcl

@@ -75,11 +75,22 @@ proc hwaci-bold {str} {
 # using [user-notice] (which means its rendering will (A) go to stderr
 # and (B) be delayed until the next time autosetup goes to output a
 # message).
-proc hwaci-indented-notice {msg} {
-  set lines [split $msg \n]
+#
+# If its first argument is -error then it renders the message
+# immediately and then exits.
+proc hwaci-indented-notice {args} {
+  set fErr ""
+  switch -exact -- [lindex $args 0] {
+    -error     { set args [lassign $args fErr] }
+  }
+  set lines [split [join $args] \n]
   foreach line $lines {
     user-notice "      [string trimleft $line]"
   }
+  if {"" ne $fErr} {
+    show-notices
+    exit 1
+  }
 }
 
 ########################################################################

manifest

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