Message-Id: Date: Tue, 18 May 99 17:31:59 MET DST From: Michel de Ruiter To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: gdb 4.18 for DJGPP (alpha) Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com > Two of them were actual bugs in readline (seems like nobody revised > that code since v1.x days, because it used `memset' to clear the > screen); I can actually cause GDB to crash if I invoke commands > that use that code. Actually, I *have* looked at that code (after Daisuke Aoyama did too), I reported the necessary changes for the previous version of Readline to its maintainer. It mostly came down to deactivating the v1-support for v2. The changes did not appear in Readline 4.0 (I think because they were too DOS-specific), but I have not had any negative response. Then I suggested to remove the DJGPP v1 support from Readline altogether, but I did not get any reaction on that either. All that is really needed is building bare GNU termcap and Readline for DJGPP and not providing any /etc/termcap, resulting in a dumb terminal. The (old) Readline zips on Simtelnet contains most changes IIRC, applied by someone else (because I was too lazy to build them :), based on http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mdruiter/rl22.dif . Hope this helps. Groente, Michel.