From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21843 invoked by alias); 29 Sep 2018 18:20:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 21785 invoked by uid 89); 29 Sep 2018 18:20:01 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=patrick, H*Ad:U*palves X-HELO: mail-wm1-f47.google.com Received: from mail-wm1-f47.google.com (HELO mail-wm1-f47.google.com) (209.85.128.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 29 Sep 2018 18:20:00 +0000 Received: by mail-wm1-f47.google.com with SMTP id y25-v6so5024853wmi.1 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2018 11:19:59 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from ?IPv6:2001:8a0:f913:f700:4eeb:42ff:feef:f164? ([2001:8a0:f913:f700:4eeb:42ff:feef:f164]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id h18-v6sm6665865wrb.82.2018.09.29.11.19.56 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 29 Sep 2018 11:19:57 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Upgrading readline To: Tom Tromey , gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Patrick Palka References: <87efdcikqi.fsf@tromey.com> From: Pedro Alves Message-ID: <040744ad-dd95-8be2-c3b5-bae6a9034a91@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 18:20:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87efdcikqi.fsf@tromey.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2018-09/txt/msg00936.txt.bz2 On 09/29/2018 12:52 PM, Tom Tromey wrote: > I took a look at what it would take to upgrade to the latest readline 7 > patch release. I have a few questions, mostly about Windows-related > preprocessor defines. Thanks for doing this. Note that Patrick Palka attempted this a couple of years back. The update went into master, but was subsequently reverted because of problems on non-x86 ports. See: https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-07/msg00422.html https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-07/msg00759.html And: https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2016-02/msg00484.html Thanks, Pedro Alves