Guidance re. MinGW and readline

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Mon Jul 18 14:34:00 GMT 2005


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 08:21:09AM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> 
>>  Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 17:17:02 -0700
>>  From: Mark Mitchell
>>
>>  (1) Wait for readline-5.1 to be released, incorporate it into src/, and 
>>  then to add the minimal termcap stuff to a file in gdb/ that is only 
>>  used on MinGW.
>>
>>  (2) I backport Chet's changes to rltty.c to the src/readline/ 
>>  sourcebase, and then proceed as above.  Because we know that these 
>>  changes will be in readline-5.1, we needn't worry overmuch about 
>>  divergence from upstread sources.
>>
>>You'll still need the minimal termcap stuff in gdb/ in this case isn't
>>it?
> 
> 
> Actually, I wonder if libiberty would be a better place for the minimal
> termcap stuff.

I knew someone would suggest that...

OK, I'll try that approach.

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