Re: Enabled TUI mode on MSYS2

[Giah de Barag <gdb at crelg dot com>]

> On Sep 14, 2016, at 13:33, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.comwrote:
> 
>> On 09/14/2016 06:21 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 
>> I hope this explains the issue.  The bottom line is that GDB should
>> import a newer version of Readline, and then these problems will be
>> fixed without any need for further patches.

Eli: Yes, I see now. Thank you for that update. That also explains why
I’m seeing a problem with the backspace handling. I should import the
entire newer readline library not just change getch to _getch.

> If the readline patch in question is upstream already,
> I wouldn't object backporting it to our readline copy.
> 
> The problem with rebasing our readline copy is simply that it
> requires someone motivated to spend the effort to do it.
> Patrick Palka tried to import readline 7 a while ago, and the import
> made it to master even, but then a few problems were discovered
> and the patch was reverted:
> 
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-07/msg00759.html
> 
> There was no movement after that.
> 
> Thanks,
> Pedro Alves

Pedro: Seeing that Eli is able to build and run GDB with the new
readline, we should be able to move forward. I am willing to help.
What do you need from us to move this forward?