George Vasick <George.Vasick at sun.com> writes:
> I see 3 issues from the comments:
>
> 1) Interface stability. The current gdb 6.3 release is declared
> volatile. Feedback indicates this is too low. I agree and propose to
> change to uncommitted.
>
> 2) Why was curses switched form libncurses in gdb 6.3 to libcurses in
> gdb 6.8?
>
> This change was made before I came on to the project and I can only
> speculate that it may have been unintentional. libncurses is located in
> /usr/gnu/lib on Solaris and will not be found be default. If the
> configure script does not find libncurses, it will automatically switch
> to libcurses. I have tested both Sparc and Intel with libncurses, the
> results are comparable to those with libcurses, and I will make the
> switch.
>
> 3) Why not use libreadline.so in place of libreadline.a bundled with gdb?
>
> OK. All 3 changes are included in the attachment.
Thanks for your considerations. I'm happy with the case as specified.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
