From: John Gilmore <gnu@cygnus>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1991 22:41:16 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Desupport i386sco, and mention the new readline.
X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4882e5dc984eeb21f165e46a29b293f9f4d7da4f;p=deliverable%2Fbinutils-gdb.git

Desupport i386sco, and mention the new readline.
---

diff --git a/gdb/WHATS.NEW b/gdb/WHATS.NEW
index 1f8200b45e..13693f53b2 100755
--- a/gdb/WHATS.NEW
+++ b/gdb/WHATS.NEW
@@ -5,12 +5,17 @@
 
  * New machines supported (host and target)
 
-SCO Unix on i386 IBM PC clones		i386-sco-sysv	or  i386sco
 Amiga 3000 running Amix			m68k-cbm-svr4	or  amix
 NCR 3000 386 running SVR4		i386-ncr-svr4	or  ncr3000
 Motorola Delta 88000 running Sys V	m88k-motorola-sysv  or  delta88
 
-There is no core file support on SCO Unix.
+ * Almost SCO Unix support
+
+We had hoped to support:
+SCO Unix on i386 IBM PC clones		i386-sco-sysv	or  i386sco
+(except for core file support), but we discovered very late in the release
+that it has problems with process groups that render gdb unusable.  Sorry
+about that.  I encourage people to fix it and post the fixes.
 
  * Preliminary ELF and DWARF support
 
@@ -20,6 +25,12 @@ is preliminary.  If you bring up GDB on another SVR4 system, please
 send mail to bug-gdb@prep.ai.mit.edu to let us know what changes were
 reqired (if any).
 
+ * New Readline
+
+GDB now uses the latest `readline' library.  One user-visible change
+is that two tabs will list possible command completions, which previously
+required typing M-? (meta-question mark, or ESC ?).
+
  * Bugs fixed
 
 The `stepi' bug that many of you noticed has been squashed.