Re: Order of checking for readline support libraries

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Order of checking for readline support libraries
Date: 2006-11-30 20:25:57
Message-ID: 20061130202557.GC21407@svana.org
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On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 11:33:11AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Currently, configure checks for the readline support packages in the
> order
> -ltermcap -lncurses -lcurses
> I would like to change this to
> -lncurses -ltermcap -lcurses
> The reason is that Fedora is deprecating termcap and planning to remove
> it (see attached). Comments? Anyone know of a platform this would
> produce bad results on?

On debian libtermcap.so is a symlink to libncurses.so, so it will
change the link line but other than that have no effect.

The real termcap was deprecated in debian sometime around the libc6
transition.

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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