Re: Guidance re. MinGW and readline

Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-18T03:23:04Z

> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 17:17:02 -0700
> From: Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
> CC: chet.ramey@case.edu
>
> (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.
>
> I'd prefer the second path, even though it's more work for me, in that
> it would hopefully result in more quickly reaching the state where all
> of the MinGW support is in the FSF GDB. However, if the GDB maintainers
> don't want to go that route, I'll just wait. I'd very much appreciate
> advice from the GDB maintainers about which path to take.

If you can afford the additional effort, go the second path.

Thanks.