Re: GNU readline and BSD license

* The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> [001229 17:06] wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Alfred Perlstein <bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net> writes:
> > > My understanding (from the recent discussion) is that Postgresql
> > > has certain dependancies on libreadline and won't compile/work
> > > without it,
> >
> > Then you're working from a misconception.
>
> I think the misconception that he might be working on here is the point
> someone brought up that when configure runs, it is adding -lreadline to
> the backend compile, even though that I don't think there is any reason
> for doing such?

I thought psql required libreadline, I'm not sure who said it.

If nothing requires it then there's not much point in moving to
libedit from a devel cost/benifit analysis.

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