Dan Nicholson wrote: > Two things I think should be noted here. First, just because it's > designed on BSD and ported to Linux later doesn't mean it won't work > here. OpenSSH works the exact same way,
Not sure how OpenSSH and libedit have some sort of commonality, but unless this item is the same as your next item (the new active port), I don't understand what you are driving at. Could you please clarify (if it is important to the discussion). > Second, there is a very active port, pointed to in Ag's commit, that's > different from the Sourceforge version which is ancient. It'd be > interesting to know if the past breakage still occurs with this > version. This I did not realize. Thanks for pointing it out. We will need to check it out. I do know that most packages that use libedit, use the version from SF (at least I think so), and that is no good. > Any chance you can point to the old discussion? The only one I can find is > here: > > http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-dev/2006-March/014048.html I am going on memory. If it really matters (I remember there being more than just one post on the subject), we'll need to search the archives. I'm not very good at it. Seems you and Archaic have both recently posted about some tools you use that make searching the Archives easier. I've never used either of these tools. > Points 4 and 5 are not true using this port: > > http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/ Indeed, you are correct. Thanks again for pointing out that it is a new version, not the old one, Ag put in the book. Seems something like this should be discussed (or at least mentioned) on -dev before it is put in the book, so as to avoid any confusion by dummies like me. > Now, I'm still not opposed to keeping it out of the book, but I want > to make sure we're on the same page here. Agreed. We were not on the same page. But at least we've got the issue out in the open now. I am not in a position to test, nor really even look at this new libedit until tomorrow. -- Randy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
