Re: [HACKERS] Why is libcurses added to build by configure?

Doesn't work here :-) I suspect you are correct, because now that I inspect
the makefile output more closely, it is libreadline that has the unresolved
references, not any object file in the source tree.

Regards, K.

Am 31-Oct-98 schrieb Tom Lane:
> Karl Auer <auer(at)kom(dot)id(dot)ethz(dot)ch> writes:
>> psql (at least in 6.3.2) uses curses and readline. I know this because
>> I tried to compile under a SuSE 5.3 distribution.
>
> Hmm. psql does use readline, but there's no direct dependency on
> curses. (I verified this by building without curses; it works, here.)
>
> Perhaps there are some implementations of readline that depend on
> curses? The GNU libreadline I have here appears to use termcap,
> but not curses. There might be other versions though.
>
> I think it would be possible to extend configure to detect which
> library(s) libreadline depends on, and only include those in the link.
> But that's not something to risk at this stage...
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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