From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 74520 invoked by alias); 12 Aug 2019 19:52:31 -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 74512 invoked by uid 89); 12 Aug 2019 19:52:31 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-18.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,ENV_AND_HDR_SPF_MATCH,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_IN_DEF_SPF_WL autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=offer, his, our, person X-HELO: mail-ot1-f68.google.com Received: from mail-ot1-f68.google.com (HELO mail-ot1-f68.google.com) (209.85.210.68) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 12 Aug 2019 19:52:29 +0000 Received: by mail-ot1-f68.google.com with SMTP id z17so45079891otk.13 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2019 12:52:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=k9az41pAg8rnqeCXh/vmztg23xmJZLyxr1tSJuLHHzA=; b=ZNgX8SP+PgToeSHVpzAQbsa+FbtC15QSz26qmseI4oll9x/f3ci5aLYJNrk6oQ6N9A CD0kIeN7dDOM6J+X14lTmU27RRtrMpF8hkHX11GEpMIMstHrwCAlv3QY9cz9Gwxj054D tRk31Lt7TlGKaLeiyrpYyMGfYLPuWnPdd5iD3/v46+76oVYcXeoR/Ihiz2Ab8jf9cGJT ZXmo7gzPI0TdjJGTJUv7Tk0oYbFUkbnJP4+4b+4QVJ4XeuZbeVBhgD//ky+RXol4dCAT al16ooEqYd/XEAC1iDKbpESvx36NtH1+59w8tIuX7scJsl1hEa0dngaqc4S/pRH+kfNY y9wQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20190806204334.13441-1-tom@tromey.com> <874l2tdjha.fsf@redhat.com> <87mugk7oy0.fsf@tromey.com> <87k1bi418b.fsf@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <87k1bi418b.fsf@redhat.com> From: "Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches" Reply-To: Christian Biesinger Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 19:52:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Upgrade readline To: Sergio Durigan Junior Cc: Tom Tromey , Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-08/txt/msg00250.txt.bz2 On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 2:46 PM Sergio Durigan Junior wrote: > On Wednesday, August 07 2019, Tom Tromey wrote: > >>>>>> "Sergio" == Sergio Durigan Junior writes: > > > > Sergio> I'm in favour of bumping the readline version to 7 (note that Debian > > Sergio> oldstable, i.e., wheezy, which was released 4+ years ago, already ships > > Sergio> with readline 7), and (eventually) just get rid of our local copy. > > > > We talked about that briefly on irc yesterday too. > > Yes (for a different value of "yesterday" now). > > > I wonder if we really could get rid of the local copy. I mean, > > obviously we could, but would it be a problem for anybody? > > [ /me puts his downstream hat ] > > I guess it depends. If the person is building GDB on a system that > doesn't offer readline-dev or a similar package, then it can be a > "problem" in the sense that he or she will have to compile readline by > hand, probably. Windows may be the OS where that's the hardest. But maybe that doesn't matter too much -- cygwin/mingw/etc could just provide a prebuilt libreadline as well? Christian