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Re: [RFA] Add --with-curses configure option
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Cc: Jerome Guitton <guitton at adacore dot com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:27:42 -0700
- Subject: Re: [RFA] Add --with-curses configure option
- References: <20090313020640.GE11284@adacore.com>
> 2009-02-13 Jerome Guitton <guitton@adacore.com>
>
> * configure.ac: Add --with-curses.
> * configure: Regenerated.
There were no objections, so I checked this patch in after reverifying it
by buiding GDB on x86-linux before the patch (linked to libtermcap.so),
after the patch but without --with-curses (linked to libtermcap.so) and
after the patch using --with-curses (linked to libtermcap.so).
I've also run the regression testsuite, but this time on x86_64-linux
(faster).
I'm trying to decide whether this is worth a NEWS entry or not, and
I am currently leaning towards not. The NEWS file for the upcoming
7.0 release is quite substantial at this point, and I don't want to
dilute it with something that's relatively minor. I checked the
manual too on the section about configuring GDB, and it only describes
the most important command line switches.
So I think it makes sense to not document this feature further.
``configure --help'' shows:
| --with-curses use the curses library instead of the termcap
| library
--
Joel