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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il>
To: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain)
Cc: cagney@gnu.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] Build TUI when curses
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 19:26:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2914-Wed11Feb2004212651+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040211151816.7B88F4B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> (mec.gnu@mindspring.com)

> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:18:16 -0500 (EST)
> From: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain)
> 
> If there is no curses library, then readline won't build

That is true for Unix perhaps, but not for other systems.

> so it's okay
> for gdb to require curses as well (until someone reorganizes gdb so that
> it can be built without readline).
> 
> My two cents: it's okay to clean it up, and it's also okay to let it
> abort.  It's all good.

My take on this is that we shouldn't add constraints that some day
will need to be lifted, like if we will have an option to build an
MI-only version or something.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-02-11 19:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-11 15:18 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2004-02-11 15:43 ` Bob Rossi
2004-02-11 15:55   ` Andrew Cagney
2004-02-11 19:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-11 15:58 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2004-02-10 20:10 Andrew Cagney
2004-02-11  6:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-11 14:52   ` Andrew Cagney
2004-02-16 19:36   ` Andrew Cagney

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