From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16443 invoked by alias); 22 Aug 2002 20:22:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 16403 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2002 20:22:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 22 Aug 2002 20:22:34 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17hyTU-0000Kz-00; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 15:22:36 -0500 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17hyU9-0007yJ-00; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 16:23:17 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 13:22:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Elena Zannoni Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: readline 4.2 update Message-ID: <20020822202316.GA30444@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Elena Zannoni , obrien@FreeBSD.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <20020627181845.A4376@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020705104907.A82443@oolong.il.thewrittenword.com> <20020705090235.A89810@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020705174616.GJ30783@redhat.com> <15666.7508.511151.45057@localhost.redhat.com> <15670.50788.889700.175367@localhost.redhat.com> <20020822194849.GA54969@dragon.nuxi.com> <15717.17926.191646.22343@localhost.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15717.17926.191646.22343@localhost.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-08/txt/msg00267.txt.bz2 On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 04:13:58PM -0400, Elena Zannoni wrote: > 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? FYI, the Debian package contains patches to use a system libreadline 4.3; I want to integrate them but I haven't been able to think of a clean way to do it, so I'm just holding onto them. Let me know if you want a copy. The nice thing is, 4.3 fixes longstanding problems with Home/End... -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer