Re: [Bug-readline] GDB-related problems in Readline

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/14/15 11:12 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> [Please CC me on any replies, as I'm not subscribed to the list.]
> 
> Back in January, I sent the patches below, see
> 
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2015-01/msg00003.html
> 
> They are needed to prevent misbehavior of GDB built for native Windows
> debugging with MinGW.  In particular, when GDB is invoked without the
> -tui switch, it exits on the first keystroke, because Readline calls
> 'getch' from ncurses.
> 
> I didn't receive any response then, and mistakenly assumed that the
> patches were accepted.  But now I see that the pretest of GDB 7.10 and
> the GDB Git repository still don't have these issues fixed, so I guess
> I was mistaken, and should have followed up back then.
> 
> Can these patches please be applied to Readline?  Thanks.

Why do you think the patches were not applied?  For example:

$ grep win32_isatty *.c
input.c:win32_isatty (int fd)
input.c:#define isatty(x)       win32_isatty(x)
$ grep NCURSE *.h
tcap.h:#elif defined (HAVE_NCURSES_TERMCAP_H)

and so on.


-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
                 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    address@hidden    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/