Re: change bc to use readline

2003-02-28 Thread Francis Litterio
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:41:53PM -0800, Philip Nemec wrote: >>I recently installed another fresh copy of cygwin and was reminded of a >>complaint I have with bc... > > Perhaps you'd like to be the bc maintainer? I rarely use it and > have no burning desire to contin

Re: change bc to use readline

2003-02-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:41:53PM -0800, Philip Nemec wrote: >I recently installed another fresh copy of cygwin and was reminded of a >complaint I have with bc... Perhaps you'd like to be the bc maintainer? I rarely use it and have no burning desire to continue to support it. If so, peruse htt

change bc to use readline

2003-02-27 Thread Philip Nemec
I recently installed another fresh copy of cygwin and was reminded of a complaint I have with bc... It doesn't ship with readline support built in - and the source doesn't ship in a way that builds. To get bc to compile (grabbing source using setup - the simple case): * scan.l -- comment out th