From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23800 invoked by alias); 20 Sep 2017 21:22:48 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 23791 invoked by uid 89); 20 Sep 2017 21:22:47 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=our X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 20 Sep 2017 21:22:46 +0000 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5845B461F9; Wed, 20 Sep 2017 21:22:45 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mx1.redhat.com 5845B461F9 Authentication-Results: ext-mx05.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: ext-mx05.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; spf=fail smtp.mailfrom=palves@redhat.com Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn04.gateway.prod.ext.ams2.redhat.com [10.39.146.4]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 472A060251; Wed, 20 Sep 2017 21:22:44 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [patch] Allow to link with ncursesw To: Matthias Klose , gdb-patches@sourceware.org, John Baldwin References: <85b197cb-3a52-2e96-e7a3-a387afc3f158@redhat.com> From: Pedro Alves Message-ID: Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 21:22:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2017-09/txt/msg00518.txt.bz2 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