[Pkg-postgresql-public] pg_wrapper and readline confusion

Peter Eisentraut petere at debian.org
Wed Jul 25 11:49:50 UTC 2012


On ons, 2012-07-25 at 09:38 +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Re: Martin Pitt 2012-07-25 <20120725050645.GH3264 at piware.de>
> > Peter Eisentraut [2012-07-22  0:34 +0300]:
> > > The postgresql packages are supposed to be linked with libedit nowadays,
> > > but they are not configured with --with-libedit-preferred, so if
> > > libreadline is installed, they will still end up linked with
> > > libreadline.  Maybe that's actually intentional, but ...
> > 
> > I guess some people would still construct a potential license problem
> > there.. But I actually left it like that so that people can easily do
> > local builds with readline without much fuss. If you prefer to add
> > --with-libedit-preferred, that's fine for me.
> 
> I think I would prefer --with-libedit-preferred so rebuilds are more
> deterministic.

I agree.  If you want to rebuild with readline, you can just delete that
option, and then at least you'll see in the interdiff what you did.




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