Re: GNU readline and BSD license

From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: GNU readline and BSD license
Date: 2000-12-30 01:04:56
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.31.0012292103320.50868-100000@thelab.hub.org
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On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> Alfred Perlstein <bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net> writes:
> > My understanding (from the recent discussion) is that Postgresql
> > has certain dependancies on libreadline and won't compile/work
> > without it,
>
> Then you're working from a misconception.

I think the misconception that he might be working on here is the point
someone brought up that when configure runs, it is adding -lreadline to
the backend compile, even though that I don't think there is any reason
for doing such?

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