From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10125 invoked by alias); 28 Jul 2008 12:48:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 10117 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Jul 2008 12:48:41 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from s200aog10.obsmtp.com (HELO s200aog10.obsmtp.com) (207.126.144.124) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:48:15 +0000 Received: from source ([164.129.1.35]) (using TLSv1) by eu1sys200aob010.postini.com ([207.126.147.11]) with SMTP; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:46:57 UTC Received: from zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (ns2.st.com [164.129.230.9]) by beta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id 0C698DADA; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:46:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail1.bri.st.com (mail1.bri.st.com [164.129.8.218]) by zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id 995574C2B4; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:46:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [164.129.12.194] (bri0669.bri.st.com [164.129.12.194]) by mail1.bri.st.com (MOS 3.8.7a) with ESMTP id CKL38168 (AUTH stubbsa); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:46:55 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <488DBFB1.2070008@st.com> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:48:00 -0000 From: Andrew STUBBS User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 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 Subject: Re: pdcurses readline-mingw backspace key in windows console References: <48820CB0.9000502@case.edu> <4DD3AF7ECBBC43409BA36508938D01852CF05A@CVAEX1.VERTICAL.COM> <20080719211038.GA4920@caradoc.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20080719211038.GA4920@caradoc.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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/msg00515.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > 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. GDB does build without curses, but the GDB TUI won't work without. Sorry for the delayed response, it's taken a while to check. Andrew