From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7909 invoked by alias); 18 Jul 2005 16:55:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 7895 invoked from network); 18 Jul 2005 16:55:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (205.217.158.180) by sourceware.org with QMTP; 18 Jul 2005 16:55:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 25159 invoked by uid 10); 18 Jul 2005 16:55:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 1314 invoked by uid 500); 18 Jul 2005 16:55:31 -0000 To: Christopher Faylor Cc: mark@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, chet.ramey@case.edu, Mark Kettenis Subject: Re: Guidance re. MinGW and readline References: <42DAF4FE.3060609@codesourcery.com> <200507180621.j6I6L9WO005075@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20050718135801.GA17333@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> From: Ian Lance Taylor Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:55:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20050718135801.GA17333@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2005-07/txt/msg00149.txt.bz2 Christopher Faylor writes: > > (1) Wait for readline-5.1 to be released, incorporate it into src/, and > > then to add the minimal termcap stuff to a file in gdb/ that is only > > used on MinGW. > > > > (2) I backport Chet's changes to rltty.c to the src/readline/ > > sourcebase, and then proceed as above. Because we know that these > > changes will be in readline-5.1, we needn't worry overmuch about > > divergence from upstread sources. > > > >You'll still need the minimal termcap stuff in gdb/ in this case isn't > >it? > > Actually, I wonder if libiberty would be a better place for the minimal > termcap stuff. I don't see why, unless we seriously think that some program other than gdb is going to want to use it. If I understand the earlier messages, the only point to the minimal termcap stuff is to use it with readline on MinGW. That seems fairly special purpose to me, and not the sort of thing we usually put it into libiberty. Ian