From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25687 invoked by alias); 11 Feb 2004 19:26:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 25660 invoked from network); 11 Feb 2004 19:26:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO aragorn.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.23) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Feb 2004 19:26:18 -0000 Received: from zaretski ([80.230.153.156]) by aragorn.inter.net.il (MOS 3.4.4-GR) with ESMTP id CLT44065; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 21:26:10 +0200 (IST) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 19:26:00 -0000 From: "Eli Zaretskii" To: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain) Message-Id: <2914-Wed11Feb2004212651+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> CC: cagney@gnu.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <20040211151816.7B88F4B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> (mec.gnu@mindspring.com) Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] Build TUI when curses Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20040211151816.7B88F4B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg00306.txt.bz2 > 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.