Re: Order of checking for readline support libraries

From: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Order of checking for readline support libraries
Date: 2006-12-05 12:55:48
Message-ID: 45756C54.3090001@sun.com
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Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 11:33:11AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Currently, configure checks for the readline support packages in the
>> order
>> -ltermcap -lncurses -lcurses
>> I would like to change this to
>> -lncurses -ltermcap -lcurses
>> The reason is that Fedora is deprecating termcap and planning to remove
>> it (see attached). Comments? Anyone know of a platform this would
>> produce bad results on?
>
> On debian libtermcap.so is a symlink to libncurses.so, so it will
> change the link line but other than that have no effect.

On solaris 8,9,10... it is also symlink to libncurses.

Zdenek

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