[CWB] [ cwb-Bugs-1569619 ] command-line completion may crash

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Bugs item #1569619, was opened at 2006-10-02 23:02
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Category: CQP interface
>Group: TODO-3.5
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 3
Private: No
Submitted By: Stefan Evert (schtepf)
Assigned to: Stefan Evert (schtepf)
Summary: command-line completion may crash

Initial Comment:
The CSTR editline command-line editing library seems to
be buggy and crashes when too many completion options
are offered by CQP (e.g. thousands of named query
results), at least on Mac OS X 10.4. 

Now that CQP is open-source, the editline library
should be replaced by the more professional GNU
readline library (editline was used mostly because of
licensing issues, after initial prototypes had built on
GNU readline).  Since the two libraries have very
similar interfaces, this should not be a difficult
change to make, but thorough testing seems necessary. 
Plus, an autoconf configure script should be used to
test for availability of the readline library and
proper linking options.

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>Comment By: Andrew Hardie (andrewhardie)
Date: 2011-07-31 23:08

Message:
CWB is back to GNU Readline as of some time ago and building seems to be
OK. So the main thing that now needs doing on this bug is simply to check
if the crash can be reproduced in the current beta.

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