From: | Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | RE: [HACKERS] Why is libcurses added to build by configure? |
Date: | 1998-10-31 03:33:30 |
Message-ID: | XFMail.981030223330.vev@michvhf.com |
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On 30-Oct-98 Tom Lane wrote:
> Does anyone understand why configure.in wants to include libcurses in
> $(LIBS) ? There is no program in the PostgreSQL distribution that uses
> that library (at least, I could not find any reference to curses.h).
I'm guessing here, but could it be a replacement for things like readline?
I know old OS versions could have any number of things stuck to it, and
after some of the things I've seen HP-UX do over the years, nothing really
surprises me anymore.
>
> On HPUX 10, including libcurses causes problems because it defines a
> select() routine that has nothing to do with the select() system call.
> There is a hack in Makefile.hpux that gets around this (by linking -lc
> ahead of the libraries chosen by configure), but that is going to cause
> problems for supporting HPUX 10.01, because signal considerations demand
> that -lBSD come first on that platform.
>
> I would like to pull out the configure.in code that adds -lcurses to
> LIBS, but I'm hesitant to do it at this late stage in the release cycle
> without knowing why it was there in the first place. Did we use to have
> a frontend that used curses, or something like that?
How wise would that be at this time? That may be something to do at
a time like a minor version release.
Vince.
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