On Mon, 21 May 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Tom Lane writes:
>
> > 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.
*BSD ports/packages shouldn't have much of a problem. They can encode
dependencies, both in the binary package and in the build-from-source
process. So if the package maker did things right, the packaging system
would have either squalked, or tried to install libreadline before running
configure.
Take care,
Bill
