Re: Need for libreadline.a from a gdb package compatible with gcc 2.95.2

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-gdb@sources.redhat.com>]

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On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 04:46:51PM -0800, Richard Haney wrote:
>I have recently downloaded a gdb package (gdb-5.2.1-20021009.tar.gz)
>from <www.mingw.org>.  The package contains a gcc 3.2 compatible copy
>of libreadline.a for the win32 (MinGW, i.e., non-cygwin) environment. 
>That library works fine with gcc 3.2.  But I need to build packages
>using gcc 2.95.2, and gcc 2.95.2 does not link its output modules to
>gcc 3.2 output modules.  So apparently, I can't use the libreadline.a
>from the above gdb package for my gcc 2.95.2 builds.
>
>I've also tried building libreadline using gcc 2.95.2, but the build
>package assumes that my environment is one of three types, two of which
>involve the use of 'termio.h' and/or 'termios.h'.  But my computing
>enviroment is none of the three.
>
>Is there an "old" gdb package around somewhere that has a libreadline.a
>compiled with gcc 2.95.2 for win32 (preferably, MinGW, non-cygwin)?

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