site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) On 01/05/2005, at 6:56 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: 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). I maintain that this is broken. -- Martin _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... chet@cwru.edu 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. In addition, there is no BSD version of libreadline. BSD libedit has been in Mac OS X since at least 10.2. The new things are the compatibility wrappers in readline/readline.h and, and this seems to me to be Apple's invention, the symlinks readline/history.h->readline.h and libreadline.dylib->libedit.2.dylib. The overall effect is the same (licensing issues aside) as having included a very old incompatible version of GNU readline. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com