Re: [Cgdb-devel] package libreadline with CGDB

[Mike M. <mmu...@cs...>]

I don't see a problem with including readline.  We would statically link
to it, rather than install a new readline.so on the user's machine, right=
?

Mike


> Hi All,
>
> I've been thinking about packaging readline with CGDB. CGDB needs a
> fairly new version of readline to work. I find that people also downloa=
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> CGDB, configure it, find out it doesn't configure because of readline,
> and then that starts them on a never ending cycle of not being able to
> configure CGDB.
>
> Either way, I've had several patches received into the development
> version of readline. Once the next version of readline is released, CGD=
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> will depend on it. This change is needed to greatly improve the interna=
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> structure of CGDB. In particular, CGDB will no longer have to fork in
> order to communicate with readline. This is a great, and much needed
> change.
>
> I was thinking about importing readline into CGDB for the next minor
> release of CGDB (which could be soon). Does anyone think this is a bad
> idea? or problematic? Any advice?
>
> Thanks,
> Bob Rossi
>