On 08.10.21 00:40, Tom Lane wrote:
As far as that goes, I thought we had a policy against auto-detecting user-visible features. From memory, the rationale goes like "if you want feature X you should say so, so that the build will fail if we can't provide it". Thus we make you say something like --with-openssl even though it wouldn't be particularly hard to auto-detect. Peter E. can probably advocate more strongly for this approach.
Yeah, there used to be RPMs shipped that accidentally omitted readline support.
