Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:46:30 +0700 From: Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: removing libreadline from base system Message-ID: <CADe0-4k%2B=%2BfkXyatjDuVzNak0u=0UaaJcFEaLYad61q05anh1Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111129085946.GD6680@azathoth.lan> References: <CADe0-4kDotyR096Yfv9_pwAw_K6fe2XJ5QUpgkFLE1Q6q4YdmA@mail.gmail.com> <20111129085946.GD6680@azathoth.lan>
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Baptiste, On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>wrote: > It is possible to build and link our in-tree gdb & friends with libedit > > after r228114. > > > > The remaining question is what to do with libreadline: > > > > 1) just build & link gdb with libedit > > > > OR > > > > 2) re-import libreadline from gdb sources and build INTERNALLIB version > of > > it that is never installed and is linked only to gdb > > > > I am inclined to go for 1) but libedit may have (and has) > incompatibilities > > with libreadline. > > Back when I sent a libedit upgrade patch, before obrien update libedit on > his > own, I managed to build the whole tree with libedit, gdb, ntpc and others > were > fully functionnal with it, (at that time I totally removed libreadline) > The whole src tree now builds without 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. > This is a separate issue that I want to handle separately. The question is what to do with gdb & friends. Link it with libedit or re-import bundled readline (that is shipped with gdb) and build/link it only to gdb. I am inclined to do the former. Max
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