Re: RFC: Readline 5.1 import

Elena Zannoni
2006-04-10T18:30:14Z

Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
> I've locally imported readline 5.1 into src, replacing our older readline
> 4.3 import. It requires only two small changes in gdb (both dealing with
> the rename of rluser.texinfo -> rluser.texi); patch attached. I've also
> attached a diff between readline 5.1 + upstream patches 001-004, and
> my imported directory; I don't know how else I can usefully present the
> changes, since a diff from the previous version of readline is too huge to
> be useful.
>
> I've done my best to preserve every local change. The local changes are
> mainly for Cygwin, DJGPP, and MinGW32; I tested GNU/Linux, and did manual
> testing on both Cygwin and MinGW32. My last attempt to build a DJGPP GDB
> took all day and failed horribly due to GCC bugs, so I'm afraid I can't
> test the __MSDOS__ bits. But they're pretty straightforward and I did
> preserve all the local ones.
>
> Does anyone mind my committing the merge? I'll be glad to help straighten
> out any problems arising from that. If you'd like to test it first, let
> me know; it's a bit of work to produce a patched source tree.

Pls, make sure you do an import, not just a merge. I don't remember
the detailed procedure, and I don't have my notes here, but the import
was first done on a branch and various tags were used:

readline-pre-43-import
readline_4_3-import-branch
readline_4_3-import-branchpoint
readline_4_3