Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> This has got to stop. We've seen "my cursor keys don't work in psql", now
> we see "compression doesn't work" every so often. Somehow we have to get
> deterministic output from configure without "paying attention". Either
> require these libraries by default (my preference) or not, but not "take
> what's there".
So you're thinking "error out unless user said --without-zlib or
--without-readline"?
I could live with that, assuming that the error message mentioned that
switch as the way to build without the library.
regards, tom lane