From: Joel Sherrill <joel@rtems.org>
To: palves@redhat.com, Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>
Cc: GDB patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] configure.ac: Cygwin now has ncurses not termcap. Use standard logic.
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 15:02:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAF9ehCVT83HXak+a6BS7qW4TG-yj2fWA9uEoB_E63OO-Xt3gTQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f417f573-08dc-38ea-adaa-b079755b2e78@redhat.com>
On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 9:34 AM Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
> WDTY by "now"?
>
> I mean Cygwin used to include libtermcap and this built. I updated my
Cygwin this
week and it is no longer there. I wasn't able to figure out when it went
away. libncurses.a
is included and that's suitable.
I cc'ed Corinna. I assume she can speak to when libtermcap.a was removed.
Corring
> Could you add some rationale words to the proposed commit log, please?
>
Like what? This removes a hack that was dependent on the presence of one
of the multiple alternative libraries. And the one it was hard-coded to
pick isn't
included with Cygwin anymore.
Happy to change the text but it felt like I was removing a hack that had
outlived
its usefulness. :)
--joel
>
> Thanks,
> Pedro Alves
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-25 15:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-24 21:07 Joel Sherrill
2018-10-25 14:34 ` Pedro Alves
2018-10-25 15:02 ` Joel Sherrill [this message]
2018-10-25 15:31 ` Pedro Alves
2018-10-25 18:50 ` Corinna Vinschen
[not found] ` <16e94ff1-0c06-7cca-44b1-77bf2fa59519@redhat.com>
2018-10-30 20:22 ` Corinna Vinschen
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