From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14813 invoked by alias); 8 Feb 2006 17:56:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 14748 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Feb 2006 17:56:21 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from romy.inter.net.il (HELO romy.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.66) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 08 Feb 2006 17:56:21 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-155-31.inter.net.il [80.230.155.31]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id DNK04637 (AUTH halo1); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 19:56:16 +0200 (IST) Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 17:56:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, bash-maintainers@gnu.org In-reply-to: <20060208161452.GA26965@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Wed, 8 Feb 2006 11:14:52 -0500) Subject: Re: [readline-mingw] backspace key and TUI size Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <43E9A5B1.1030001@st.com> <20060208134335.GA22980@nevyn.them.org> <43EA1655.609@st.com> <20060208161452.GA26965@nevyn.them.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-02/txt/msg00183.txt.bz2 > Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 11:14:52 -0500 > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, bash-maintainers@gnu.org > > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:03:33PM +0100, Denis PILAT wrote: > > Our host is i686-pc-mingw32, gdb is compiled under cygwin with > > "-mno-cygwin" flag to avoid cygwin dependencies. > > We also use pdcurses library since ncurse is not available on windows. > > I think that's why you don't see the problem. With this patch, I'm not > > using the tputs() function anymore on Windows, as it was not used for MSDOS. > > Ah - we (CodeSourcery) don't use a curses library at all; just the > standard Windows and MinGW DLLs. See win32-termcap.c. But win32-termcap.c is not a general solution for readline, it's private to GDB, right? SHouldn't this problem be solved in readline rather than in GDB (and in every other application that uses readline)?