Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:59:46 +0100 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: removing libreadline from base system Message-ID: <20111129085946.GD6680@azathoth.lan> In-Reply-To: <CADe0-4kDotyR096Yfv9_pwAw_K6fe2XJ5QUpgkFLE1Q6q4YdmA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CADe0-4kDotyR096Yfv9_pwAw_K6fe2XJ5QUpgkFLE1Q6q4YdmA@mail.gmail.com>
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--hxkXGo8AKqTJ+9QI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:02:23PM +0700, Max Khon wrote: > Hello! >=20 > It is possible to build and link our in-tree gdb & friends with libedit > after r228114. >=20 > The remaining question is what to do with libreadline: >=20 > 1) just build & link gdb with libedit >=20 > OR >=20 > 2) re-import libreadline from gdb sources and build INTERNALLIB version of > it that is never installed and is linked only to gdb >=20 > I am inclined to go for 1) but libedit may have (and has) incompatibiliti= es > with libreadline. >=20 > Max Back when I sent a libedit upgrade patch, before obrien update libedit on h= is own, I managed to build the whole tree with libedit, gdb, ntpc and others w= ere fully functionnal with it, (at that time I totally removed libreadline) The only "problem" I see is from the ports lots of them relies on base libreadline, so we need to first run an exp-run without libreadline, to determine the impact and fix the related ports, before we can fully dropped libreadline. regards, Bapt --hxkXGo8AKqTJ+9QI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk7UnwIACgkQ8kTtMUmk6EyeRwCdHDHZJLO4fKOV0ahmK75q9X+i 8y0AoJpMf/helBFWj6P0aRHBwk2471m0 =A5xZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hxkXGo8AKqTJ+9QI--
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