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Re: readline 4.2 update
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>
- Cc: obrien at FreeBSD dot org, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 16:23:16 -0400
- Subject: Re: readline 4.2 update
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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...
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer