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From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 09:22:28 -0500
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Subject: Re: Readline and DJGPP
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> It seems like the version of readline used by current GDB snapshots
> (at least as of the Feb 17 snapshot) still doesn't fix the old
> problems: it still disables signal handling in signals.c and still has
> all that v1.x vintage code in display.c, readline.c and terminal.c.
> 

Bash 2.04 beta 5 contains Readline 4.1. It does have some of the fixes that 
have been reported. Other fixes I have reported and they should be in beta 6. 
It would seem like you have an earlier version (4.0?). The macro 
RL_LIBRARY_VERSION in readline.c will tell you the version number.

If you or anyone else is interested in downloading  Bash 2.04 b5 to examine 
the beta Readline 4.1, you can get it from <ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-
2.04-beta5.tar.gz>. But it won't build as-is without changes that I've 
already reported, so you may just want to look at the source code and see if 
there's any fixes missing that ought to be there. I've also sent patches for 
drive letter handling, so that should be fixed in the next beta.

Mark