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@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>