Re: Guidance re. MinGW and readline

Ian Lance Taylor
2005-07-18T16:55:44Z

Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx> 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.

Ian