[Freeciv-Dev] Re: 1/2 readline patch

[Jeff Mallatt <jjm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2000/07/14 01:55 , David Pfitzner wrote:
>Jeff Mallatt wrote:
>> At 2000/06/01 12:26 , Thue Janus Kristensen wrote:
>> >I have tried making readline work with the civserver, but haven't been
>> >completely succesfull.
>
>> Here's another attempt.  It addresses the first two problems, and adds
>> saving/reloading the history to a file (~/.civserver_history).  Also,
>> rearranges configure stuff to be more consistent and automatic.
>
>This configures fine (finds readline once I have the right packages
>installed), and compiles, but then core dumps when I try to run!
>(And sometimes leaves the terminal in a strange state, but
>'stty sane' seems to fix.)

Damn.  Very depressing.

>Debian (mainly slink/2.1) 
>readline 2.1 (debian libreadlineg2_2.1-12 and libreadlineg2-dev_2.1-12)
>(uses libncurses4 4.2-3)
[snip]
>I could try upgrading the packages involved to latest versions, 
>but haven't yet.

Mine is an old Red Hat 5.0.  It uses readline-2.1-5 (according to rpm).

This looks very mysterious.  I'll have to think about it a bit...

jjm