Re: --with-libedit-preferred is bad design

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: --with-libedit-preferred is bad design
Date: 2013-07-13 05:24:00
Message-ID: 51E0E470.2010506@commandprompt.com
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On 7/12/2013 7:10 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
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> That would hardly be only true of libedit, on Apple.
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> It's also broken on some Red Hat versions, last I checked.

Last I heard, libedit was completely borked. Here is a report (two years
old) of still broken libedit in Debian:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608442

IMO, we either need to take up the mantle of libedit maintenance or we
need to remove it from a configure option, it doesn't work anyway.

JD

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