Tom Lane writes:
> I suggest that the behavior of configure not be changed, but that it be
> tweaked to put out a slightly more obvious notice about not being able
> to find readline support. Maybe
>
> checking for libreadline ... no
> checking for libedit ... no
> *
> * NOTICE: I couldn't find libreadline nor libedit. You will
> * not have history support in psql.
> *
This may be useful as well, but it doesn't help those doing unattended
builds, such as RPMs and *BSD ports. In that case you need to abort to
notify the user that things didn't go the way the package maker had
planned.
Let's do both.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter