Re: RFC: Readline 5.1 import

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
 > I've locally imported readline 5.1 into src, replacing our older readline
 > 4.3 import.  It requires only two small changes in gdb (both dealing with
 > the rename of rluser.texinfo -> rluser.texi); patch attached.  I've also
 > attached a diff between readline 5.1 + upstream patches 001-004, and
 > my imported directory; I don't know how else I can usefully present the
 > changes, since a diff from the previous version of readline is too huge to
 > be useful.
 > 
 > I've done my best to preserve every local change.  The local changes are
 > mainly for Cygwin, DJGPP, and MinGW32; I tested GNU/Linux, and did manual
 > testing on both Cygwin and MinGW32.  My last attempt to build a DJGPP GDB
 > took all day and failed horribly due to GCC bugs, so I'm afraid I can't
 > test the __MSDOS__ bits.  But they're pretty straightforward and I did
 > preserve all the local ones.
 > 
 > Does anyone mind my committing the merge?  I'll be glad to help straighten
 > out any problems arising from that.  If you'd like to test it first, let
 > me know; it's a bit of work to produce a patched source tree.


Pls, make sure you do an import, not just a merge.  I don't remember
the detailed procedure, and I don't have my notes here, but the import
was first done on a branch and various tags were used:

readline-pre-43-import 
readline_4_3-import-branch
readline_4_3-import-branchpoint 
readline_4_3