From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23344 invoked by alias); 8 Feb 2006 16:51:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 23336 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Feb 2006 16:51:19 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:51:18 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1F6sXC-0007Uw-Iw; Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:51:14 -0500 Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:51:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Andrew STUBBS Cc: Denis PILAT , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, bash-maintainers@gnu.org Subject: Re: [readline-mingw] backspace key and TUI size Message-ID: <20060208165114.GA28698@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew STUBBS , Denis PILAT , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, bash-maintainers@gnu.org References: <43E9A5B1.1030001@st.com> <20060208134335.GA22980@nevyn.them.org> <43EA1655.609@st.com> <20060208161452.GA26965@nevyn.them.org> <43EA201B.5080305@st.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43EA201B.5080305@st.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-02/txt/msg00176.txt.bz2 On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 04:45:15PM +0000, Andrew STUBBS wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:03:33PM +0100, Denis PILAT wrote: > >>Our host is i686-pc-mingw32, gdb is compiled under cygwin with > >>"-mno-cygwin" flag to avoid cygwin dependencies. > >>We also use pdcurses library since ncurse is not available on windows. > >>I think that's why you don't see the problem. With this patch, I'm not > >>using the tputs() function anymore on Windows, as it was not used for > >>MSDOS. > > > >Ah - we (CodeSourcery) don't use a curses library at all; just the > >standard Windows and MinGW DLLs. See win32-termcap.c. Are those > >functions not being used for you? > > No, we don't use those functions. The win32-termcap doesn't support the > TUI. PDcurses does (mostly), but the symbols clash, so win32-termcap is > disabled. Please, guys, if you're going to submit patches that only matter with other configuration changes and patches, say so! I'd like to understand what goes wrong for you and why outputing whatever pdcurses is giving you for backspace doesn't work. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery