Re: Should libedit be preferred to libreadline? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Should libedit be preferred to libreadline?
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Msg-id 200511251704.jAPH4C805761@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Should libedit be preferred to libreadline?  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>)
Responses Re: [PATCHES] Should libedit be preferred to libreadline?  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 07:50:48PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >
> > Nice analysis, but we can't hack configure like that. It has to be able
> > to be fully generated from its sources. I think the other source file
> > you would need to look at is config/programs.m4. (Not sure about quoting
> > $ac_popdir - why only that one?)
> >
> > Also, I suspect we'd want to enable the libedit preference with a switch
> > rather than just force it, if we want to go this way.
>
> BTW, we've run into issues with readline from a licensing standpoint. It
> would be really nice if libedit was supported where practical (I suspect
> most mainstream OSes support libedit) since it's BSD licensed.

Why don't we have a libedit configure flag?

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