This patch...
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Christian Bauer wrote:
> Update of /home/cvs/GiNaC/ginsh
>
> Modified Files:
> ginsh_parser.yy
> Log Message:
> - increased compatibility with RedHat's readline-4.2-1 package
...has broken compatibility with Readline 4.1 on all our Debian Potato
boxen. I've looked into it but don't understand one thing: why were there
changes necessary in sections that should be #ifdef'ed out when compiling
with libreadline-4.2? Christian, can you fix this?
Regards
-richy.
--
Richard Kreckel
<Richard.Kreckel(a)Uni-Mainz.DE>
<http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~kreckel/>
<swear> This libreadline nightmare makes me slightly sick. Why does the
maintainer not release 4.3 *with* fine-grained version control before 4.2
screws up all upcoming Distros? And then there is the C++-brokenness.
SuSE did not get it right. They seem to ship with two libreadlines now
and compile all their stuff to the old one! Debian fixed it only after
agonizing for a few weeks. Let's hope RedHat get's it right now. </swear>
Hi all,
Please forgive my ignorance, but is there any chance GiNaC might move away
from CLN and in its place use a "softer" library such as NTL?
(http://www.shoup.net/ntl/) At least then we might have a chance of moving
away from (or at least not kneeling before) Mark Mitchell and his GCC
henchmen ;-)
What sort of obstacles would such a 'port' face? Just how many innocent
undergrad students would need to be tortured for such a feat to occur?
Disappointed with GCC, (albeit deleriously happy with GiNaC)
Duraid