Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 10:01:43 +0100 From: Stefan Farfeleder <stefan@fafoe.narf.at> To: James Butler <sweetnavelorange@gmail.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it becomestandard compiler?) Message-ID: <20090201090143.GA1429@lizard.fafoe.narf.at> In-Reply-To: <f0dd9eb90901311555u4c5e4d4fv515f5ceb3d075b77@mail.gmail.com> References: <779523.80455.qm@web32706.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20090131221236.GA27303@soaustin.net> <f0dd9eb90901311553u9eaf5c2h508146ca227ef8e6@mail.gmail.com> <f0dd9eb90901311555u4c5e4d4fv515f5ceb3d075b77@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 12:55:20PM +1300, James Butler wrote: > 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 :-) I once posted a patch which ports it to FreeBSD. It would need a lot of work to fix all ports though.
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