On 07/12/2013 06:31 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> writes: >> I think the current --with-libedit-preferred should go away, and be >> replaced by a --with-libedit option which throws an error if libedit >> isn't found. > > I'm not sure that will work well on systems where libedit masquerades > as readline...
Ah, was that the thinking behind that? In that case, maybe we could put a warning in the config.log that libedit wasn't found? Right now, there's nothing. > > TBH, given the number of bugs we've hit in libedit, encouraging its use > isn't something we should put effort into anyway. Or is it just that > Apple seems incapable of finding non-broken versions to ship? That would hardly be only true of libedit, on Apple. It's also broken on some Red Hat versions, last I checked. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
