6999161a2a
readline turns out to be a bit of a stumbling block for the project to
move gdbsupport (and then gdbserver) to the top-level.
The issue is that readline headers are intended to be included with
names like "readline/readline.h". To support this, gdb effectively
adds a -I option pointing to the top-level source directory -- but,
importantly, this option is not used when the system readline is used.
For gdbsupport, a -I option like this would always be needed, but that
in turn would break the system readline case. This was PR build/17077,
fixed in commit a8a5dbcab8.
Previously, we had discussed this on the gdb-patches list in terms of
removing readline from the tree
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2019-09/msg00317.html
However, Eli expressed some concerns, and Joel did as well (off-list).
Given those concerns, and the fact that a patch-free local readline is
relatively new in gdb (it was locally patched for years), I changed my
mind and decided to handle this situation by moving the readline
sources down a level.
That is, upstream readline is now in readline/readline, and the
top-level readline directory just contains the minimal configury
needed to build that.
This fixes the problem because, when gdb unconditionally adds a
-I$(top_srcdir), this will not find readline headers. A separate -I
will be needed instead, which is exactly what's needed for
--with-system-readline.
gdb/ChangeLog
2019-10-23 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* Makefile.in (READLINE_DIR): Update.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog
2019-10-23 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* Makefile.in (READLINE_DIR): Update.
readline/ChangeLog
2019-10-23 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Move old contents to readline/ subdirectory.
* aclocal.m4, configure, configure.ac, .gitignore, Makefile.am,
Makefile.in, README: New files.
Change-Id: Ice156a2ee09ea68722b48f64d97146d7428ea9e4
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dnl Autoconf configure script for the readline wrapper directory
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dnl Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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dnl
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dnl This file is part of GDB.
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dnl
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dnl This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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dnl it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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dnl the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
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dnl (at your option) any later version.
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dnl
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dnl This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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dnl but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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dnl MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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dnl GNU General Public License for more details.
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dnl
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dnl You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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dnl along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
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AC_INIT([readline], [UNUSED-VERSION])
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AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([readline/readline.c])
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AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(..)
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AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
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AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
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AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS([readline])
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AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
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AC_OUTPUT
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