From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3839 invoked by alias); 9 Dec 2002 23:42:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 3825 invoked from network); 9 Dec 2002 23:42:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO duracef.shout.net) (204.253.184.12) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 9 Dec 2002 23:42:44 -0000 Received: (from mec@localhost) by duracef.shout.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id gB9Ngdq00487; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 17:42:39 -0600 Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 16:27:00 -0000 From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain Message-Id: <200212092342.gB9Ngdq00487@duracef.shout.net> To: carlton@math.stanford.edu, ezannoni@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Merge of readline 4.3 to mainline Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00306.txt.bz2 Heh. I figured out what's special about my system. I build the whole toolchain from scratch, starting with gnu make, then binutils, then a baseline version of gcc. Then I use the baseline tools to build everything else, including all the binutils, gcc's, and gdb's that I test with. Then I run all the tests. The idea of the baseline is to make a test bed that can bootstrap on systems without the gnu toolchain, like Solaris. My baseline compiler is gcc 2.95.3, because it's simple and fast. When I build gdb with /bin/cc, or when I use gcc 3.2.1 + binutils 2.13.1, the strange behavior in readline does not happen and my gdb.log looks normal and good. So it's some interaction with building gdb with gcc 2.95.3 and then running on red hat linux 8 that causes the perverse line refreshes. I figure this falls in the category of "don't do that!" Anyways now we know a little more about readline in case the perverse line refreshes ever strike anyone else. Feeling bashful, Michael C