Re: Enabled TUI mode on MSYS2

[Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>]

On 09/14/2016 06:21 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I hope this explains the issue.  The bottom line is that GDB should
> import a newer version of Readline, and then these problems will be
> fixed without any need for further patches.

If the readline patch in question is upstream already,
I wouldn't object backporting it to our readline copy.

The problem with rebasing our readline copy is simply that it
requires someone motivated to spend the effort to do it.
Patrick Palka tried to import readline 7 a while ago, and the import
made it to master even, but then a few problems were discovered
and the patch was reverted:

 https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-07/msg00759.html

There was no movement after that.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves