Re: removing libreadline from base system

2011-12-02 Thread Max Khon
David, On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:43 PM, David O'Brien wrote: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 12:57:20PM +0700, Max Khon wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 8:55 AM, David O'Brien > wrote: > > If you go with (2) above, we'll still have *tons* of ports that want a > > > libreadline, so we'll just end up

Re: removing libreadline from base system

2011-12-02 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 12:57:20PM +0700, Max Khon wrote: > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 8:55 AM, David O'Brien wrote: > If you go with (2) above, we'll still have *tons* of ports that want a > > libreadline, so we'll just end up growing a port of it and we'll wind up > > with a libreadline on the syste

Re: removing libreadline from base system

2011-12-02 Thread Max Khon
David, On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:17 PM, David O'Brien wrote: Agreed and known. If the application(s) using libreadline weren't > already GPL I wouldn't have spoken up. > > When I added the libreadline compatibility to libedit, I changed all the > non-GPL libreadline uses to libedit. Nope. You

Re: removing libreadline from base system

2011-12-02 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 08:41:12PM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 05:55:37PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:02:23PM +0700, Max Khon wrote: > > > It is possible to build and link our in-tree gdb & friends with libedit > > > after r228114. > > > The r

Re: removing libreadline from base system

2011-12-01 Thread Max Khon
David, On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 8:55 AM, David O'Brien wrote: If you go with (2) above, we'll still have *tons* of ports that want a > libreadline, so we'll just end up growing a port of it and we'll wind up > with a libreadline on the system anyway. Then you need to define what base system is.

Re: removing libreadline from base system

2011-12-01 Thread Max Khon
David, On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 8:59 AM, David O'Brien wrote: > This is a separate issue that I want to handle separately. > > I see no value in handling it separately. I either have a libreadline on > my system or I don't. > What I meant is that this problem is not related to the original quest

Re: removing libreadline from base system

2011-12-01 Thread Max Khon
Brooks, On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Brooks Davis wrote: > What is the value in doing either? > > > > libreadline isn't infecting any non-GPL code turning into GPLv2. > > > > Some of use have fancy .input files, and quite frankly the vi mode of > > libedit still doesn't work quite the same as

Re: removing libreadline from base system

2011-12-01 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 05:55:37PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:02:23PM +0700, Max Khon wrote: > > It is possible to build and link our in-tree gdb & friends with libedit > > after r228114. > > The remaining question is what to do with libreadline: > > 1) just build & li

Re: removing libreadline from base system

2011-12-01 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:02:23PM +0700, Max Khon wrote: > It is possible to build and link our in-tree gdb & friends with libedit > after r228114. > The remaining question is what to do with libreadline: > 1) just build & link gdb with libedit > OR > 2) re-import libreadline from gdb sources and

Re: removing libreadline from base system

2011-12-01 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 04:46:30PM +0700, Max Khon wrote: > This is a separate issue that I want to handle separately. I see no value in handling it separately. I either have a libreadline on my system or I don't. Again, "what problem are you trying to solve"? > The question is what to do with

Re: removing libreadline from base system

2011-11-29 Thread Michel Talon
>The only "problem" I see is from the ports lots of them relies on base >libreadline, so we need to first run an exp-run without libreadline, to >determine the impact and fix the related ports, before we can fully drop >libreadline. One of the first port to consider, i think, is rlwrap. Some ti

Re: removing libreadline from base system

2011-11-29 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 04:46:30PM +0700, Max Khon wrote: > Baptiste, > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > > It is possible to build and link our in-tree gdb & friends with libedit > > > after r228114. > > > > > > The remaining question is what to do with libreadline

Re: removing libreadline from base system

2011-11-29 Thread Max Khon
Baptiste, On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > It is possible to build and link our in-tree gdb & friends with libedit > > after r228114. > > > > The remaining question is what to do with libreadline: > > > > 1) just build & link gdb with libedit > > > > OR > > > > 2) re-i

Re: removing libreadline from base system

2011-11-29 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:02:23PM +0700, Max Khon wrote: > Hello! > > It is possible to build and link our in-tree gdb & friends with libedit > after r228114. > > The remaining question is what to do with libreadline: > > 1) just build & link gdb with libedit > > OR > > 2) re-import libreadli

removing libreadline from base system

2011-11-28 Thread Max Khon
Hello! It is possible to build and link our in-tree gdb & friends with libedit after r228114. The remaining question is what to do with libreadline: 1) just build & link gdb with libedit OR 2) re-import libreadline from gdb sources and build INTERNALLIB version of it that is never installed an