Re: readline 4.2 update

David O'Brien
2002-08-22T20:12:39Z

On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 04:06:57PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >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.
>
> Just FYI,
>
> GDB 5.3 branches in ~< two weeks, so I don't know that doing an import
> now is a good idea :-/

*sigh* that's why I asked about this a while back. Can I get permission
to upgrade to readline 4.3 in HEAD after the branch?

> Hmm, given that a GDB distro already needs to be bundled in with its own
> private version of BFD and OPCODES, I can't see why READLINE should be
> treated differently.

People do it anyway. :-)

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