On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 06:47:46AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Bob Rossi on 1/25/2006 4:21 PM: > > > > Is there any known bugs with readline-5.1 on Cygwin? I've tracked down my > > problem compiling and running CGDB to this package. > > No known cygwin-specific bugs, but definitely upstream bugs, or perhaps > also bugs in the terminfo database. Read the last few day's worth of > complaints about prompt display bugs caused by readline mishandling > terminfo settings when compiled for multibyte support (and I'm still > trying to put together a readline-5.1-2 release that at least works around > this).
OK, thanks for the info. > > In linux, everything works fine, although I know these problems could > > lie anywhere. CGDB uses the alternative callback mechanism of the readline > > library. I had several contributions to readline, which improved the > > readline > > library's alterntive callback mode. > > You are welcome to compile readline from source, with full debugging > symbols, and help debug this issue. I must admit that although I maintain > readline, I have not compiled anything but bash that uses it, and even > then, I relied on out-of-the-box usage of readline. So I won't be much > help in discovering where the alternative callback mechanism seems to go > wrong for you. Yeah, CGDB may be the only packages that uses the alternative interface. Before 5.1 the interface did not work properly, and would cause hangs. OK, I did figure out how to compile readline-5.1, however, I couldn't figure out how to link against it. I was only able to link against the system installed readline. Any suggestions? > > Does the Cygwin distro patch readline-5.1? If so, where can I see these > > patches? > > Use setup.exe to download the source for any package included in the > cygwin distribution; the source tarball includes my cygwin-specific > patches (mainly a workaround to speed up completion on //, and an extra > hook function required by the cygwin release of bash 3.0-9). Thanks, Bob Rossi -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/