| From: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Seneca Cunningham <scunning(at)ca(dot)afilias(dot)info>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-ports(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Should libedit be preferred to libreadline? |
| Date: | 2005-11-22 20:49:24 |
| Message-ID: | 20051122204924.GF99429@pervasive.com |
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On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 07:50:48PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> Nice analysis, but we can't hack configure like that. It has to be able
> to be fully generated from its sources. I think the other source file
> you would need to look at is config/programs.m4. (Not sure about quoting
> $ac_popdir - why only that one?)
>
> Also, I suspect we'd want to enable the libedit preference with a switch
> rather than just force it, if we want to go this way.
BTW, we've run into issues with readline from a licensing standpoint. It
would be really nice if libedit was supported where practical (I suspect
most mainstream OSes support libedit) since it's BSD licensed.
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