Re: PATCH: Readline on MinGW

[Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>]

Chet Ramey wrote:
>>Eli, just to be clear, you said you "support" the patches I posted (with
>>this exception).  I'm interpreting that as "I hope they go into upstream
>>readline", rather than as "it's OK to check these patches into the GDB
>>repository."  If you actually meant the latter, let me know. :-)
> 
> 
> I only looked at the changes briefly, but they looked fine.  I would
> not, in any case, replace `kill' with `raise' without an autoconf test.

OK.  I'll add an autoconf test for "kill" and then use "raise" only if 
"kill" is unavailable.  I'll repost with that change soon.

> Unless there's something fatally wrong with the patch, I don't have a
> problem incorporating it into the readline distribution.

Great, thank you!

Eli, et. al., does that mean that it's OK to check the patch into GDB 
now?  What procedure do we use from here?

Thanks,

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