On 2019-Dec-11, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 5:40 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > Of course, this only works if we have those hooks :-(. So far as
> > I can tell, all libreadline variants that might still exist in the wild
> > do have them; but libedit doesn't, at least not in the version Apple
> > is shipping. Hence, what the attached patch does is to make configure
> > probe for the existence of the hook variables; if they're not there,
> > fall back to what I proposed previously.
>
> 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
> If it were being done it would be
> advantageous to have the checks be runtime rather than compile-time,
> although I guess that would probably be tough to make work.
Yeah. On the other hand, I suppose Debian uses the BSD version of the
libraries, not the Apple version, so I think it should be fine?
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