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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com>,
	gdb-patches@sourceware.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] Allow to link with ncursesw
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 21:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e8d80005-3c3a-cff7-0164-858280117d89@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <efd9c02d-767f-bc13-0c1e-85dbc8a7acd8@ubuntu.com>

On 09/20/2017 08:51 PM, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 20.09.2017 20:39, Pedro Alves wrote:

>> Did you reach out to readline/bash, see if they're willing
>> to try ncursesw before ncurses too?  Don't we need at least
>> a local patch to our local readline copy, to avoid breaking
>> those that use it and have it link with ncurses?
> 
> afaik, this is only the case if readline is linked with one of the curses
> libraries.  However these days everybody seems to have readline linked to just
> tinfo, so this shouldn't be an issue?

Everybody on GNU/Linux, it seems.  However, the Python bug
report talked about FreeBSD's readline linked with ncurses
Do you know whether they've switched to tinfo as well
meanwhile?  [Adding John as FreeBSD maintainer.]

> Python itself doesn't link to a curses library, it uses the only which is used
> for readline.
> 

And if readline doesn't use curses, what does Python do?

Thanks,
Pedro Alves


  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-20 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-13 10:29 Matthias Klose
2017-09-20 18:39 ` Pedro Alves
2017-09-20 19:52   ` Matthias Klose
2017-09-20 21:22     ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2017-09-20 21:25       ` Pedro Alves
2017-09-20 23:58       ` John Baldwin
2017-09-22 10:22         ` Pedro Alves
2017-09-25 18:34           ` John Baldwin
2017-09-26 15:27             ` Pedro Alves

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