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From: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net>
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In-Reply-To: "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su>
       "Re: What programs use libreadline?" (Mar 17, 10:01pm)
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To: "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su>
Subject: Re: What programs use libreadline?
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> >I already explained that the copystring() routine is now deprecated
> >according to all the comments in the code, so I would like to remove it
> >from libreadline ...
> 
> Sorry, I misunderstand you a bit. We don't have newest version
> of gdb, it is 4.14.

Correct.  When we upgrade to it, I'd rather not have to have a ton of
FreeBSD specific patches for the sources if possible.

> I'll check -current gdb & readline to see,
> what savestring does in both sources, but do you say that you already
> have ld patch for it, or not?

For the shared version, but not for the static version (in case anyone
wants to compile it static).  I use the static version for debugging the
shlib code as it seems to work better than the shared version. :-)


Nate