From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 69490 invoked by alias); 14 Sep 2016 18:33:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 69420 invoked by uid 89); 14 Sep 2016 18:33:04 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*Ad:U*eliz, H*r:4.80.1, our X-HELO: telf.telf.com Received: from tel.telf.com (HELO telf.telf.com) (192.254.205.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 18:32:54 +0000 Received: from rrcs-70-60-125-182.midsouth.biz.rr.com ([70.60.125.182]:27913 helo=[10.0.9.33]) by telf.telf.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1bkEzL-0004Hn-SU; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:32:51 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.3 \(3124\)) Subject: Re: Enabled TUI mode on MSYS2 From: Giah de Barag In-Reply-To: <831t0m8kio.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 18:33:00 -0000 Cc: GDB Patches Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <7A23984E-3296-496B-96BF-F22498AF5767@crelg.com> References: <1E55DA7D-4F01-49BB-99FF-5A79933415A4@crelg.com> <83d1k78an5.fsf@gnu.org> <831t0m8kio.fsf@gnu.org> To: Eli Zaretskii , Pedro Alves X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: telf.telf.com: authenticated_id: gdb@crelg.com X-SW-Source: 2016-09/txt/msg00122.txt.bz2 > On Sep 14, 2016, at 13:33, Pedro Alves =20 >> On 09/14/2016 06:21 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>=20 >> 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. Eli: Yes, I see now. Thank you for that update. That also explains why I=E2=80=99m seeing a problem with the backspace handling. I should import t= he entire newer readline library not just change getch to _getch. > If the readline patch in question is upstream already, > I wouldn't object backporting it to our readline copy. >=20 > 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: >=20 > https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-07/msg00759.html >=20 > There was no movement after that. >=20 > Thanks, > Pedro Alves Pedro: Seeing that Eli is able to build and run GDB with the new readline, we should be able to move forward. I am willing to help. What do you need from us to move this forward?