From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20615 invoked by alias); 18 Jul 2005 17:10:33 -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 20600 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Jul 2005 17:10:29 -0000 Received: from c-24-61-23-223.hsd1.ma.comcast.net (HELO cgf.cx) (24.61.23.223) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:10:29 +0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 6DA774A8884; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:10:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:10:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: mark@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, chet.ramey@case.edu Subject: Re: Guidance re. MinGW and readline Message-ID: <20050718171028.GA7804@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mail-Followup-To: mark@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, chet.ramey@case.edu References: <42DAF4FE.3060609@codesourcery.com> <200507180621.j6I6L9WO005075@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20050718135801.GA17333@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-07/txt/msg00150.txt.bz2 On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 09:55:31AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >Christopher Faylor writes: > >> > (1) Wait for readline-5.1 to be released, incorporate it into src/, and >> > then to add the minimal termcap stuff to a file in gdb/ that is only >> > used on MinGW. >> > >> > (2) I backport Chet's changes to rltty.c to the src/readline/ >> > sourcebase, and then proceed as above. Because we know that these >> > changes will be in readline-5.1, we needn't worry overmuch about >> > divergence from upstread sources. >> > >> >You'll still need the minimal termcap stuff in gdb/ in this case isn't >> >it? >> >> Actually, I wonder if libiberty would be a better place for the minimal >> termcap stuff. > >I don't see why, unless we seriously think that some program other >than gdb is going to want to use it. If I understand the earlier >messages, the only point to the minimal termcap stuff is to use it >with readline on MinGW. That seems fairly special purpose to me, and >not the sort of thing we usually put it into libiberty. It just seemed to me that there was at least a chance that some other GNU project might eventually want to use readline with mingw. cgf