Re: GNU readline and BSD license

On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > > FreeBSD has a freely available library called 'libedit' that could
> > > be shipped with postgresql, it's under the BSD license.
> >
> > Yes, that is our solution if we have a real problem here.
>
> Is there a reason *not* to move towards that for v7.2 so that the
> functions we are making optional with readline are automatic? Since we
> could then ship the code, we could make it a standard vs optional
> "feature" ...

Also, it might be beneficial to _not_ link postmaster/postgres against
libreadline - I don't see where either of those programs need it - sure,
psql, but the backends? ...

morannon:~>ldd `which postgres`
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x40019000)
libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x40028000)
libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x40055000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4006c000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40070000)
libreadline.so.3 => /lib/libreadline.so.3 (0x4008d000)
libtermcap.so.2 => /usr/lib/libtermcap.so.2 (0x400b5000)
libncurses.so.4 => /lib/libncurses.so.4 (0x400b9000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x400ff000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
morannon:~>ldd `which psql`
libpq.so.2.1 => /usr/lib/libpq.so.2.1 (0x40019000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x40028000)
libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x40037000)
libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x40064000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4007b000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4007f000)
libreadline.so.3 => /lib/libreadline.so.3 (0x4009d000)
libtermcap.so.2 => /usr/lib/libtermcap.so.2 (0x400c4000)
libncurses.so.4 => /lib/libncurses.so.4 (0x400c8000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4010e000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

postgres/postmaster very likely don't need either libreadline, nor
libncurses... Unless there's something I'm missing.

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