Re: libedit on OS X?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tore Halset <halset(at)pvv(dot)ntnu(dot)no>
Cc: pgsql-ports(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: libedit on OS X?
Date: 2003-12-08 22:22:42
Message-ID: 200312082322.42583.peter_e@gmx.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
> So, no, you can't use this instead of readline. I'm a bit confused
> why not though, since other people claim to have working
> configurations like that. Perhaps what Apple is shipping is an
> ancient, un-featureful version of libedit? Or something unrelated
> that happens to have the same name?

NetBSD has added an explicit readline compatibility layer to its
libedit. I think that has spread around to some other BSDs, but
apparently not far enough.

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