Re: Readline not working anymore in interactive interpreters

[Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>]

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According to Olivier Lefevre on 7/22/2009 7:01 AM:
> I was hoping we would not be playing ye olde finger-pointing
> game. It used to work and it no longer does yet the interpreter
> has not changed. How could it not be an issue within Cygwin?

But your question is how readline is not working, and yet your cygcheck
shows that q is not even using readline (unless it is loading it
dynamically after the fact, as if by dlsym).  So you're probably asking
the wrong question.  About the only other idea I have is that your
terminal is behaving differently than it used to, but it doesn't look like
you are using mintty, which was the only other recently updated cygwin
package in 1.5 that seems like it would be relevant.  Or maybe you changed
your environment variables, such that cygwin is now passing a tty (which q
sees as a pipe) instead of a console.  But since the cygwin 1.5 dll has
not changed recently, that seems weird, unless you admit that it has been
a LONG time since your previous cygwin upgrade.

> I am not asking to take responsibility for non-Cygwin executables
> but to offer a hint as to what could possibly cause this failure.

And I'm saying I don't know, nor can I, since on the surface, q has
nothing to do with cygwin and nothing has really changed in recent cygwin
1.5 releases that should have any effect on non-cygwin apps.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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