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Re: [patch/rfc] Build TUI when curses
- From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz at elta dot co dot il>
- To: mec dot gnu at mindspring dot com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain)
- Cc: cagney at gnu dot org, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 21:26:51 +0200
- Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] Build TUI when curses
- References: <20040211151816.7B88F4B104@berman.michael-chastain.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at elta dot co dot il>
> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:18:16 -0500 (EST)
> From: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain)
>
> If there is no curses library, then readline won't build
That is true for Unix perhaps, but not for other systems.
> so it's okay
> for gdb to require curses as well (until someone reorganizes gdb so that
> it can be built without readline).
>
> My two cents: it's okay to clean it up, and it's also okay to let it
> abort. It's all good.
My take on this is that we shouldn't add constraints that some day
will need to be lifted, like if we will have an option to build an
MI-only version or something.