Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1999/05/18/11:32:24
> 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.
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