This case is now updated and approved. Raj
On 09/28/09 21:29, George Vasick wrote: > Raj Prakash wrote: >> Some interesting issues where raised on this thread, but from my >> reading of the >> conversation, they seemed to be out of scope of this case. >> >> George, are there any outstanding issues that you need to follow up? >> >> Raj > > > 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, > George > > >
