HEADSUP: BSDL bc/dc in head

Gabor Kovesdan gabor at FreeBSD.org
Sat Feb 6 12:54:10 UTC 2010


El 2010. 02. 04. 17:17, Graham Todd escribió:
> Hi, sorry to be OT.  If libedit can be swapped for libreadline in the BSDL
> bc is it possible to swap them elsewhere? Of course kgdb gdb et al. will
> always be linked against libreadline but there were a few other tools
> people seemed surprised to find linked against readline. Under
> /usr/[s]bin: ntpdc, ntpq, kadmin, ktutil and under /sbin/: gvinum (?!).
>
> See this thread:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-February/002877.html
>
> The gvinum code seems like it would be more work but perhaps for someone
> familiar with libedit/libreadline issues ntpdc ntpq would be "low hanging
> fruit".
>
> A while back I was frequently building heimdal 1.1 from source, somehow
> linking against libedit (I assumed this was correct since I had not
> noticed the base heimdal tools were linked against libreadline).
> Everything worked fine with -ledit instead of -lreadline as far as I could
> tell. Under 8.0 heimdal in base has changed but it is still linked against
> readline even though the line editing prompt for kadmin seems fairly basic
> and libedit seems to work (BTW does ktutil even provide a line editing
> prompt?). There's probably good reasons for this but *perhaps* for
> kadmin/ktutil the fruit is not low hanging but already in the basket :)
>    
Probably, the problem is just nobody has taken care of these yet. I'd be 
interested later if noone solves these before.

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