[Freeciv-Dev] Re: readline 4.2

[Erik Sigra <sigra@xxxxxxx>]

tisdagen den 10 april 2001 13:56 skrev Thue:
> On Tuesday 10 April 2001 13:45, Thue wrote:
> > readline 4.2 was released recently, and it breaks freeciv readline
> > support horribly. Here is a kludge to fix it, see comments in patch.
> >
> > I didn't test it with 4.1 or earlier as it is a bit of a pain to
> > downgrade stuff like that. Could someone please try it?
> >
> > -Thue
>
> On second though this will only work with the version of readline with
> which it was compiled. Why do the readline folks feel they need to change
> their interfaces...

Just let Freeciv depend on readline-4.2 or higher for readline functionality. 
It is generally better style for a program to require current libraries than 
legacy libraries.

About the patch: It doesn't change anything related to configure, so it is 
not even possible to configure to use readline-4.2, so I don't know if the 
actual code changes would work.