From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12887 invoked by alias); 24 Mar 2009 01:27:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 12879 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Mar 2009 01:27:53 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:27:48 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E55EB2BABA2; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:27:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id MmdcM-2RwLns; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:27:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB1DC2BAB9D; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:27:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0EB345BD21; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:27:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:33:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Cc: Jerome Guitton Subject: Re: [RFA] Add --with-curses configure option Message-ID: <20090324012742.GN9472@adacore.com> References: <20090313020640.GE11284@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090313020640.GE11284@adacore.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) 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: 2009-03/txt/msg00516.txt.bz2 > 2009-02-13 Jerome Guitton > > * configure.ac: Add --with-curses. > * configure: Regenerated. There were no objections, so I checked this patch in after reverifying it by buiding GDB on x86-linux before the patch (linked to libtermcap.so), after the patch but without --with-curses (linked to libtermcap.so) and after the patch using --with-curses (linked to libtermcap.so). I've also run the regression testsuite, but this time on x86_64-linux (faster). I'm trying to decide whether this is worth a NEWS entry or not, and I am currently leaning towards not. The NEWS file for the upcoming 7.0 release is quite substantial at this point, and I don't want to dilute it with something that's relatively minor. I checked the manual too on the section about configuring GDB, and it only describes the most important command line switches. So I think it makes sense to not document this feature further. ``configure --help'' shows: | --with-curses use the curses library instead of the termcap | library -- Joel