Re: [hatari-devel] GCC 4.9 is now used on my builds

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On keskiviikko 28 toukokuu 2014, Thomas Huth wrote:
> Am Wed, 28 May 2014 15:49:17 +0200
> schrieb Christer Solskogen <christer.solskogen@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Hah, funny. If readline is static rl_filename_completion_function is
> > gone. If it's a shared library it's found.
> 
> Quick question, do you need readline on Windows at all? IIRC when I
> compiled Hatari with MinGW quite a bunch of years ago, I noticed that
> the history was also working in the debugger without readline, most
> likely because the fgets() function has some kind of history built-in.
> So unless you really need it, I would simply omit readline from the
> Windows builds.

If one uses debugger a lot, TAB completion is pretty handy
for commands, symbol and file names etc.  You don't get that
without readline.


	- Eero