Re: Tiger and libreadline
Re: Tiger and libreadline
- Subject: Re: Tiger and libreadline
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- Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 09:11:06 -0400
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> On 01/05/2005, at 6:56 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:
> >> Many GNU packages rely on libreadline.
> >> It seems that in Darwin there is a BSD libedit, which is symlinked
> >> as libreadline and has a corresponding readline.h. This breaks
> >> Octave and probably other builds.
> >>
> >
> > Yes, this is annoying, but it fits into the pattern of Apple first
> > putting a broken version of a new open source package into OSX
> > (there are quite a few historical examples for this). A correct
> > version can probably be expected for the OSX release "Sabre-tooth
> > cat" :-)
>
> The Tiger version is neither broken nor 'incorrect'. It does what it
> says on the tin. It is however the BSD version not the GNU version.
It is, however, incompatible. There is no `BSD version' versus `GNU
version'. The BSD libedit resembles readline in that they both provide
emacs and vi editing modes, but there is neither source nor object
compatibility. There has been some attempt to provide both, but it's
not there yet (try key binding or multibyte character support).
Chet
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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU email@hidden http://tiswww.tis.cwru.edu/~chet/
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