From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21820 invoked by alias); 19 Jul 2008 21:11:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 21811 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Jul 2008 21:11:01 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:10:42 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 681DF982C3; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:10:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (22.svnf5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.183.55]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FE619805C; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:10:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KKJhP-0001M7-03; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:10:39 -0400 Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:11:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Jon Ringle Cc: chet.ramey@case.edu, andrew.stubbs@st.com, eliz@gnu.org, denis.pilat@st.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, bash-maintainers@gnu.org Subject: Re: pdcurses readline-mingw backspace key in windows console Message-ID: <20080719211038.GA4920@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Jon Ringle , chet.ramey@case.edu, andrew.stubbs@st.com, eliz@gnu.org, denis.pilat@st.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, bash-maintainers@gnu.org References: <48820CB0.9000502@case.edu> <4DD3AF7ECBBC43409BA36508938D01852CF05A@CVAEX1.VERTICAL.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DD3AF7ECBBC43409BA36508938D01852CF05A@CVAEX1.VERTICAL.COM> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2008-05-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-07/txt/msg00378.txt.bz2 On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 04:08:46PM -0400, Jon Ringle wrote: > Chet Ramey wrote: > > And if I read the pdcurses maintainer's reply correctly, the response > is > > "if you want terminfo, look somewhere else." Readline is not going to > > become a curses-based application, so it appears that using pdcurses > > with readline is a dead end. > > What would you recommend then for a mingw readline-based application > that is run from a Windows console? > > I suppose I could just provide my own terminfo stubs and link with that > to satisfy readline... The only reason that I was trying to link in a > curses library was to satisfy readline terminfo dependencies. GDB and its included readline should already build on mingw32 without a curses library. Make sure you're using a current version. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery