Re: FreeBSD 11 compiling from source cannot find readline headers - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Keith Fiske
Subject Re: FreeBSD 11 compiling from source cannot find readline headers
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Msg-id CAODZiv493DdL_JTuOWCYrj12gyWH1FOLepZB4Ucao74RNMk3zQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: FreeBSD 11 compiling from source cannot find readline headers  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 8:23 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Keith Fiske <keith.fiske@crunchydata.com> writes:
> The current version of FreeBSD 11 cannot compile the PostgreSQL from source
> without adding the --with-includes flag to the configure option

Yeah, and I believe you need a --with-libs switch too.  This is just a
FreeBSD idiosyncrasy --- everybody else thinks their compilers should
automatically search the platform's standard place for optional packages.



--with-libs is not needed when compiling with just a default "make install-world" on FreeBSD10 nor 11

 
> I noticed this issue mostly because I remembered on FreeBSD 10, I did not
> even need to have the readline package explicitly installed and the
> configure would still work perfectly fine, even confirming it could find
> the readline headers.

Really?  AFAIK FreeBSD has always been like this.  I did find a wiki
page suggesting they're thinking about changing it:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/WarnerLosh/UsrLocal

                        regards, tom lane


Positive. I set up a brand new 10.4 VM as I was writing up this email to test this just to make sure I wasn't remembering things wrong. I believe it's the same back in 9 as well, but that's harder to set up a quick test now. Only thing required in 10.4 is to install gmake and everything "just works".

And now for 11+, it seems readline is the only additional include/library that is required to compile postgresql on a clean FreeBSD install that the --with-includes is needed just for that. Main reason being seems to be that they no longer have a readline header included by default in core.

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Keith Fiske
Senior Database Engineer
Crunchy Data - http://crunchydata.com

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