Re: Upgrading readline

[Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>]

>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:

Pedro> On 09/29/2018 12:52 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
>> I took a look at what it would take to upgrade to the latest readline 7
>> patch release.  I have a few questions, mostly about Windows-related
>> preprocessor defines.

Pedro> Thanks for doing this.  Note that Patrick Palka attempted this
Pedro> a couple of years back.  The update went into master, but
Pedro> was subsequently reverted because of problems on non-x86 ports.

Pedro> See:
Pedro>  https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-07/msg00422.html
Pedro>  https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-07/msg00759.html

Pedro> And:
Pedro>  https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2016-02/msg00484.html

Yeah, I saw those - he was trying with 7.0 alpha, and I was hoping maybe
doing it with a later (non-alpha) version would help.

I have a patch.  And, I went through the local changes and I think none
of them are needed, so I've removed them one-by-one in the resulting
series.

However, it's too big to push through "buildbot try".
So, it may be quite some time until I'm able to test it suitably.
If someone wants to help with this, it's in my github repository.

Tom