Re: [PATCH oldish CVS] readline 1.0

[Karim BELABAS <Karim.Belabas@math.u-psud.fr>]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 05:57:22PM -0800, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> > This patch
> >
> >  a) restores compatibility with readline 1.0 (at least headers);
> >
> >  b) detects when history.h is missing (and corrects for it, sigh...);
> >
> >  c) detects a (typical?) case mismatch between readline headers and
> >     library (when headers are old, but the library is newer - somebody
> >     installed "user-visible" update, but not developer-visible?); we do
> >     not do anything drastic in this case; only enable rl_save_prompt
> >     if the library version is 4.1 or more (do not know the exact
> >     transition time, should be after 2.1)
> >
> >  d) Report both version of readline at compile time and now (if possible);
>
> Is this patch included in 2.2.5?

It is.

% cvs log -r1.3 config/get_readline
[...]
revision 1.3
date: 2002/12/15 15:32:23;  author: karim;  state: Exp;  lines: +50 -4
IZ 59- [readline:] support old versions (1.0), try to recover from
       mismatched headers wrt. library, report version of loaded library in
       gp header [as opposed to library version at Configure time]

> I was compiling gp at 4 different offices (Ohio, Berkeley, MPI-Bonn and
> IHES), and mis-installed readline was a problem everywhere.  Now I see that
> at least the code to print the actual version of Readline is not there...

What code exactly is missing ?

    Karim.
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