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Re: [PATCH 0/8] Upgrade readline
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 2:46 PM Sergio Durigan Junior
<sergiodj@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 07 2019, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>>> "Sergio" == Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com> writes:
> >
> > Sergio> I'm in favour of bumping the readline version to 7 (note that Debian
> > Sergio> oldstable, i.e., wheezy, which was released 4+ years ago, already ships
> > Sergio> with readline 7), and (eventually) just get rid of our local copy.
> >
> > We talked about that briefly on irc yesterday too.
>
> Yes (for a different value of "yesterday" now).
>
> > I wonder if we really could get rid of the local copy. I mean,
> > obviously we could, but would it be a problem for anybody?
>
> [ /me puts his downstream hat ]
>
> I guess it depends. If the person is building GDB on a system that
> doesn't offer readline-dev or a similar package, then it can be a
> "problem" in the sense that he or she will have to compile readline by
> hand, probably.
Windows may be the OS where that's the hardest. But maybe that doesn't
matter too much -- cygwin/mingw/etc could just provide a prebuilt
libreadline as well?
Christian