Re: readline 4.2 update

Elena Zannoni
2002-08-22T20:15:52Z

David O'Brien writes:
> Its been _over_ am month now since your responce. And 2 months since my
> request to do this, and over a year since you said you would import 4.2
> when you got "a spare moment". Please either do it, or give me
> permission to do it. FreeBSD needs this, SuSE needs this as we both link
> gdb with a system libreadline.
>
> -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

sorry. Gdb is supposed to branch on the 4th of September, how about
right after that? Alternatively, would making a branch and importing
readline there help? Are you linking with 4.2 or 4.3?

Elena

>
>
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:45:08AM -0400, Elena Zannoni wrote:
> > Elena Zannoni writes:
> > > Christopher Faylor writes:
> > > > On Fri, Jul 05, 2002@09:02:35AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > > >On Fri, Jul 05, 2002@10:49:07AM -0500, Albert Chin wrote:
> > > > >> On Thu, Jun 27, 2002@06:18:45PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > > >> > Would it be possible for src/readline to be updated to 4.2 before the
> > > > >> > next major GDB release? At the moment it is impossible to build stock
> > > > >> > sources with the latest stock libreadline (which is installed as a
> > > > >> > separate lib in FreeBSD) due to conflicting definitions of `tilde_expand'
> > > > >> > in gdb/defs.h.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Latest readline version is 4.2a.
> > > > >
> > > > >Works for me too. :-)
> > > > >But I haven't heard any opinion about updating readline.
> > > >
> > > > I'm sure it's just a matter of tuit cycles for the person responsible for
> > > > importing readline.
> > > > cgf
> > >
> > > Yes, that would be me. I'll bump up the priority of the task.
> > > Elena
> >
> > Ah, readline4.3 just came out....
> > Elena