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* readline rebase 5.1->6.2?
@ 2011-03-22 15:43 Jan Kratochvil
  2011-03-22 16:43 ` Joel Brobecker
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  0 siblings, 4 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Jan Kratochvil @ 2011-03-22 15:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gdb; +Cc: Kai Tietz, Eli Zaretskii, Christopher Faylor

Hi,

it is a bity pity the sourceware tree still bundles readline-5.1 while distros
build GDB with readline less than 5 years old.

This means in practice GDB already runs without the custom patches contained
in src/readline/ , just making GDB forked with individual downstream patch fix
ups of the compatibility.

Just the patches are of the kind of MS-related platforms compatibility:
	+dnl BEGIN changes for CYGNUS cross-building for Cygwin
	+#ifdef __MSDOS__
	+#if defined (__GO32__)
	+#ifndef __MINGW32__
	!+#if defined (SIGWINCH)
	? (+#if defined (HAVE_GETPWENT))

Other patches are for rl_prompt and signals where there were enough upstream
readline modifications I do not think these patches are meaningfully
applicable anymore.

Unfortunately there is AFAIK usually (in some cases there is) no testcase of
readline.

Before 7.3 cut off I ask about the opinion on these MS-related platforms
compatibility readline patches, Fedora GNU/Linux runs fine with
readline-6.1-2.fc14 with readline-6.2-2.fc15 soon to be GA and also no
reported problems.


Thanks,
Jan


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2011-03-22 15:43 readline rebase 5.1->6.2? Jan Kratochvil
2011-03-22 16:43 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-03-22 16:58 ` Tom Tromey
2011-03-22 17:19 ` Kai Tietz
2011-03-22 19:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-22 19:48   ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-03-22 19:59     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-01  9:30       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-01 14:19         ` Tom Tromey
2011-04-02 10:29           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-03  3:01             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-25 16:05               ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-04-02 20:10         ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-03-22 20:04     ` Tom Tromey
2011-04-01  9:25       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-22 20:36     ` Joel Brobecker

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