Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 12:55:20 +1300 From: James Butler <sweetnavelorange@gmail.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Fwd: Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it becomestandard compiler?) Message-ID: <f0dd9eb90901311555u4c5e4d4fv515f5ceb3d075b77@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <f0dd9eb90901311553u9eaf5c2h508146ca227ef8e6@mail.gmail.com> References: <779523.80455.qm@web32706.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20090131221236.GA27303@soaustin.net> <f0dd9eb90901311553u9eaf5c2h508146ca227ef8e6@mail.gmail.com>
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2009/2/1 Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:08:54PM -0800, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: >> The effort didn't go far enough. Why haven't we removed GNU readline ? > > Probably either because someone hasn't written a BSD-licensed one, or > someone hasn't done the work to test-compile src and ports on all the > appropriate architectures. This might be off topic, but NetBSD has (limited) readline compatibility in their libedit (which FreeBSD has in ports I think) - this also gives them tab-completion in /bin/sh :-) -James Butler
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