[Simh] Readline support gone?

[Howard M. Harte]

A set of real Makefiles would be nice.  As a project grows, the  
importance of a makefile becomes even more evident. Since gmake is  
available for many platforms, a single makefile for each simulator  
should work, even when using the Microsoft compiler.  And there could  
be a top-level makefile that descends into each similator subdirectory  
and invokes a simulator-specific makefile.

I guess it would take some time to debug the makefile on all supported  
platforms, but it would be worth it in my opinion.

The existing makefile could be renamed and retained for a while until  
the bugs are worked out.

-Howard


On Sep 16, 2008, at 8:07 PM, Philipp Hachtmann <hachti at hachti.de> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I just wanted to migrate to SIMH 3.8.
> When I defined HAVE_READLINE, I got a warning. After investigating, I
> found out that the libreadline support has been removed from scp.c.
> But in line 3078 ff there's still the following:
>> #if defined (HAVE_READLINE)
>> add_history (cptr);
>>
>> #endif
>
> Who has screwed the readline support?!?
>
> I once wrote a nice little patch and sent it to RMS - but he refused  
> it
> because it's "too much Linux dependent". My patch added full readline
> support including a saved history etc. Later I noticed the new  
> readline
> support in SIMH. It was a bit broken and without saved history, but it
> worked. And now it's gone again. WHY?
>
> Another issue is that I once also reorganized the source code and  
> wrote
> a completely new set of makefiles, speeding up things a lot. Did not
> seem to interest someone in this community.
> The SIMH makefile is written like a batch file, must have been written
> by someone who is clueless about what a make program is made for.
>
> I really like to help getting things going, but I still have no clue  
> how
> to participate. Every effort I took in the past has been silently
> ignored. I'm a bit sorry about that fact.
>
> Best regards,
> Philipp
>
>
>
>
>
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