On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:59:27AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > > Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > >There is a test version (5.0-alpha) of readline on which the test version > >(3.0-alpha) os Bash depends. As I'm having a wee bit of trouble with > >readline > >(building it, for the moment) I'd like to coordinate my efforts with > >Cygwin's > >readline maintainer but I don't know who he/she is.. > > That's me. However, AFAIK at present bash is built using its included > copy of the readline sources and does not use libreadline. That may be > changing as of 5.0/3.0 but it is news to me. Ehm.. good news or bad news? Anyways, Chet gave me the URLs of readline-5.0-alpha and bash-3.0-alpha and I tried building readline first (and failed). I haven't tried Bash w/o readline yet.
> readline is...not fun...to compile as a shared library; my patch is > quite large, and includes re-auto-tool-ing. I'm gradually pushing parts > of it upstream, but... > > If you'd like to adapt my current -src package/patchset to the alpha > release, I'd welcome your assistance. > > ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/release/readline/readline-4.3-5-src.tar.bz2 I won't have time for that today, in any case ;) I'll see what I can do when I can do something, but feel free to see what you can do if you can do something before me ;) In either case, I'll let you know if/when I do anything in the way to fixing readline building for Cygwin. rlc -- Recursion n.: See Recursion. -- Random Shack Data Processing Dictionary
