Re: [PORTS] [HACKERS] Should libedit be preferred to libread…

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Author: Jim C. Nasby
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To: Andrew Dunstan
CC: Seneca Cunningham, pgsql-hackers, pgsql-ports, pgsql-patches
Subject: Re: [PORTS] [HACKERS] Should libedit be preferred to libreadline?
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 07:50:48PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> Nice analysis, but we can't hack configure like that. It has to be able
> to be fully generated from its sources. I think the other source file
> you would need to look at is config/programs.m4. (Not sure about quoting
> $ac_popdir - why only that one?)
>
> Also, I suspect we'd want to enable the libedit preference with a switch
> rather than just force it, if we want to go this way.


BTW, we've run into issues with readline from a licensing standpoint. It
would be really nice if libedit was supported where practical (I suspect
most mainstream OSes support libedit) since it's BSD licensed.
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