Re: GNU readline and BSD license - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Patrick Welche
Subject Re: GNU readline and BSD license
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Msg-id 20001230213416.E12974@quantz.newn.cam.ac.uk
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In response to Re: GNU readline and BSD license  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: GNU readline and BSD license  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 02:34:24AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 
> If libedit could be used as an alternative to readline depending on your
> operating system setup then there's nothing wrong with that.  NetBSD
> already went the other way around and made libedit compatible with
> readline.

I had an attempt at fooling configure to look in libedit rather than
readline, and all was OK except our libedit doesn't have "rl_special_prefixes"
so tab-complete:105 is unhappy - I don't know what it is meant to do...

Re licence business, one could argue hooks are there to use NetBSD libedit ;)

Cheers,

Patrick


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