| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, 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: | 2005-11-25 17:04:12 |
| Message-ID: | 200511251704.jAPH4C805761@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> 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.
Why don't we have a libedit configure flag?
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