From: | Bill Studenmund <wrstuden(at)zembu(dot)com> |
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To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Detecting readline in configure |
Date: | 2001-05-23 06:58:20 |
Message-ID: | Pine.NEB.4.21.0105222353330.332-100000@candlekeep.d.zembu.com |
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On Mon, 21 May 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Tom Lane writes:
>
> > checking for libreadline ... no
> > checking for libedit ... no
> > *
> > * NOTICE: I couldn't find libreadline nor libedit. You will
> > * not have history support in psql.
> > *
>
> This may be useful as well, but it doesn't help those doing unattended
> builds, such as RPMs and *BSD ports. In that case you need to abort to
> notify the user that things didn't go the way the package maker had
> planned.
*BSD ports/packages shouldn't have much of a problem. They can encode
dependencies, both in the binary package and in the build-from-source
process. So if the package maker did things right, the packaging system
would have either squalked, or tried to install libreadline before running
configure.
Take care,
Bill
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