Fwd: Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it becomestandard compiler?)

[Stefan Farfeleder]

On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 12:55:20PM +1300, James Butler wrote:
> 2009/2/1 Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com>:
> > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:08:54PM -0800, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> >> The effort didn't go far enough. Why haven't we removed GNU readline ?
> >
> > Probably either because someone hasn't written a BSD-licensed one, or
> > someone hasn't done the work to test-compile src and ports on all the
> > appropriate architectures.
> 
> This might be off topic, but NetBSD has (limited) readline
> compatibility in their libedit (which FreeBSD has in ports I think) -
> this also gives them tab-completion in /bin/sh :-)

I once posted a patch which ports it to FreeBSD.  It would need a lot of
work to fix all ports though.