Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2019-Dec-11, Robert Haas wrote:
>> Are people still compiling against libedit and then redirecting to
>> libreadline at runtime? I seem to recall some discussion about this
>> being a thing, many years ago.
> Yeah, Debian did that out of licensing concerns. It seems they still do
> that, based on
> https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/postgresql-client-12
I think it's Debian's problem, not ours, if that doesn't work. It is
not unreasonable for a package to probe existence of a library function
at configure time. It's up to them to make sure that the headers match
the actual library.
regards, tom lane
