RE: Use the libreadline in Winedbg, if available

[Patrik Stridvall]

> On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 04:10:14PM +0200, Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> > Hallo,
> >
> > at present, wine uses unconditionally a self supplied readline
> > function. Appended patch tries to find out if libreadline 
> > is available 
> > and uses libreadline if available. I configured with and without
> > libreadline and successfully compiled winedbg on my system.
> > libreadline is a static library on my system and winedbg 
> > grew 90 kByte
> > stripped and 110 kByte compiled with -g.
>
> You are not allowed to link readline aganst non GPL code to 
> my knowledge.

No, it is enough that it is GPL compatible which the Wine license is.

Whether we should is another matter though. Just linking it 
to the debugger is rather harmless IMHO though.

Use the libreadline in Winedbg, if available

[Uwe Bonnes]

> > > > > "Patrik" == Patrik Stridvall <ps(a)leissner.se> writes:

>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 04:10:14PM +0200, Uwe Bonnes wrote: > Hallo,
    >> > 
    >> > at present, wine uses unconditionally a self supplied readline >
    >> function. Appended patch tries to find out if libreadline is
    >> available > and uses libreadline if available. I configured with and
    >> without > libreadline and successfully compiled winedbg on my system.
    >> > libreadline is a static library on my system and winedbg grew 90
    >> kByte > stripped and 110 kByte compiled with -g.
    >> 
    >> You are not allowed to link readline aganst non GPL code to my
    >> knowledge.

    Patrik> No, it is enough that it is GPL compatible which the Wine
    Patrik> license is.

    Patrik> Whether we should is another matter though. Just linking it to
    Patrik> the debugger is rather harmless IMHO though.

License issues apart, I did following silly things:
- revive an old patch untested (it doesn't work)
- didn't look at the available code ( it seems to have all the needed
framework). 

So I'll first try to make the available code do the things I want ( react on
the arrow keys without spitting out something like "^[[A")

Bye

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