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Re: [PATCH 0/8] Upgrade readline
- From: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj at redhat dot com>
- To: Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 12:32:33 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Upgrade readline
- References: <20190806204334.13441-1-tom@tromey.com>
On Tuesday, August 06 2019, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Here's the series to upgrade readline. This has been sitting around
> for a while and I thought I would finally send it.
>
> I built it on a Windows machine at AdaCore, but although readline is
> built and gdb links against it, I can't get it to work. Maybe this is
> due to whatever remote terminal I am using -- I don't know.
>
> Tested on x86-64 Fedora 28. Also, note that the major distros use
> --with-system-readline, which I think is further evidence that this
> works.
As we discussed on #gdb yesterday, both Fedora and Debian build GDB
using --with-system-readline, so, in a way, for the majority of users
our local copy of readline doesn't matter.
I'm in favour of bumping the readline version to 7 (note that Debian
oldstable, i.e., wheezy, which was released 4+ years ago, already ships
with readline 7), and (eventually) just get rid of our local copy.
Thanks,
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