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Re: readline rebase 5.1->6.2?
- From: Kai Tietz <ktietz70 at googlemail dot com>
- To: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org, Kai Tietz <ktietz at redhat dot com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>, Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:19:14 +0100
- Subject: Re: readline rebase 5.1->6.2?
- References: <20110322154327.GA8966@host1.jankratochvil.net>
2011/3/22 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>:
> Just the patches are of the kind of MS-related platforms compatibility:
> ? ? ? ?+dnl BEGIN changes for CYGNUS cross-building for Cygwin
> ? ? ? ?+#ifdef __MSDOS__
> ? ? ? ?+#if defined (__GO32__)
> ? ? ? ?+#ifndef __MINGW32__
> ? ? ? ?!+#if defined (SIGWINCH)
> ? ? ? ?? (+#if defined (HAVE_GETPWENT))
>
> Other patches are for rl_prompt and signals where there were enough upstream
> readline modifications I do not think these patches are meaningfully
> applicable anymore.
>
> Unfortunately there is AFAIK usually (in some cases there is) no testcase of
> readline.
>
> Before 7.3 cut off I ask about the opinion on these MS-related platforms
> compatibility readline patches, Fedora GNU/Linux runs fine with
> readline-6.1-2.fc14 with readline-6.2-2.fc15 soon to be GA and also no
> reported problems.
Well, I would also expect that in general those patches aren't
meaningfully applicable anymore. But I think this upgrade should wait
until 7.3 is escaped.
>
> Thanks,
> Jan
>
Kai