[issue13501] Make libedit support more generic; port readline / libedit to FreeBSD

2018-10-28 Thread Romain Geissler
Romain Geissler added the comment: Yes in my case the build works, but then I have a resulting python interpreter with limited readline functionality. That's why I have some interest in having this patch rebased and included into

[issue14956] custom PYTHONPATH may break apps embedding Python

2018-10-28 Thread Romain Geissler
Romain Geissler added the comment: Hi, Just updating this 6 year old bug report. The last comment says it's not possible to ignore environment when using the C-API. I don't know back then, but today it is possible. I have just built gdb 8.2 against python 3.7.1, and patched gdb

[issue13501] Make libedit support more generic; port readline / libedit to FreeBSD

2018-10-28 Thread Romain Geissler
Romain Geissler added the comment: Hi, Yes this bug report is still valid. I just tried compiling Python 3.7.1 on linux with libedit installed (https://thrysoee.dk/editline/) but not libreadline, and indeed the configure script fails to detect I have it installed and falls back on the