Re: [HACKERS] Detecting readline in configure

2001-05-22 Thread Bill Studenmund
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

Re: [HACKERS] Detecting readline in configure

2001-05-21 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think we should add a --with-readline option to configure, and make configure die with an error if the option is used and no readline is found. If the option is not used, readline would still be used if found. This would not help, unless the user

Re: [HACKERS] Detecting readline in configure

2001-05-21 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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. Oh, I see: you are thinking