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:
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.
