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Re: libreadline.dll.a missing functions.


On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 01:25:01AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>AJ Reins hinted in another message in this thread that the readline
>packaged within bash might be different than the standalone version.
>So, it's probably best to just admit defeat (wrt bash) and require that
>cygwin-bash be built using the internal readline library.  And not
>modify the export table to accomodate bash.
>
>Comments?

I thought I remembered reading somewhere that bash was trying hard to
use the released readline.  Since they are both maintained by the same
person, that's not hard to believe.

You could always ask Chet about this.  He's pretty responsive.

From his signature:

Chet Ramey, CWRU    chet@po.CWRU.Edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

cgf

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