| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: libedit broke in head |
| Date: | 2006-10-01 19:00:28 |
| Message-ID: | 29476.1159729228@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> I really don't get the libedit-preferred syntax? Why not just:
> --with-libedit use BSD Libedit not GNU Readline
> --with-readline use GNU Readline not BSD Libedit
> --without-readline do not use GNU Readline nor BSD Libedit
Well, the point is that the current configure behavior usually does the
right thing *without* any switches. If we made it behave as above then
the user would be forced to specify which library was installed on his
system, which is a bit pedantic when most platforms will have only one.
regards, tom lane
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