Hi, In this message several months ago:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2024-07/msg00006.html I reported a problem compiling Readline 8.2 with MinGW, due to the lack of the 'alarm' function. I have now built the GDB-16.0.90 pretest, which includes Readline 8.2 with the solution suggested by Tom Tromey, see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2024-11/msg00007.html However, that solution doesn't work with mingw.org's MinGW (it doesn't support __USE_MINGW_ALARM), so I still need a trivial implementation for 'alarm' to compile input.c. In https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2024-11/msg00008.html you say that "I have reports that alarm() doesn't work on mingw at all, so the current version doesn't try to support timeouts on mingw". Could you perhaps tell how does the current Readline code solve this problem? I looked at the Readline Git repository, and I still see there that the code which calls 'alarm' gets compiled with MinGW. Am I looking at the wrong branch, perhaps? Thanks.
