[patch/rfc] Build TUI when curses

Eli Zaretskii eliz@elta.co.il
Wed Feb 11 19:26:00 GMT 2004


> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:18:16 -0500 (EST)
> From: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain)
> 
> If there is no curses library, then readline won't build

That is true for Unix perhaps, but not for other systems.

> so it's okay
> for gdb to require curses as well (until someone reorganizes gdb so that
> it can be built without readline).
> 
> My two cents: it's okay to clean it up, and it's also okay to let it
> abort.  It's all good.

My take on this is that we shouldn't add constraints that some day
will need to be lifted, like if we will have an option to build an
MI-only version or something.



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