Re: [Cgdb-devel] package libreadline with CGDB

[Bob R. <bo...@br...>]

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:34:56AM -0400, Mike Mueller wrote:
> 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?
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> Mike

Yeah, that was what I was thinking, but I wanted to see what others
thought would be a good idea. There is a few options.

   - Always link static against the packaged version.
   - Same as above, but provide a configure option not to use the
     packaged version.
   - Only link against the packaged version if the system doesn't have a
     version that works with CGDB

Either way, by default, we would link statically against readline. We
could provide a configure option to install readline, and then link
against the installed version, but all of this just get's more and more
complicated.

I think I like the idea of distribuing readline and linking statically
against it. Maybe provide an option to not use the packaged version.
Either way, when a new version of readline comes out, I'll simply
release a new version of CGDB with that version of readline. This would
probably provide the best of both worlds.

Thanks,
Bob Rossi

> > 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 download
> > 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, CGDB
> > will depend on it. This change is needed to greatly improve the internal
> > 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
> >
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