Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Tom Lane wrote: > > > "Bob Friesenhahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> libedit-20060829-2.9 was installed to /usr/local. > > > >> Configure was executed like: > >> LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib ./configure '--prefix=/opt/foo/postgresql' > >> '--with-openssl' '--enable-thread-safety' '--with-pam' '--with-python' > >> '--enable-integer-datetimes' > > > >> configure: error: history header not found > > > > Apparently your compiler doesn't search /usr/local/include by default. > > Actually, it does. The current version of libedit > (http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/) does not provide a history.h > header. However, I created an empty history.h > (/usr/local/include/editline/history.h) to fool configure and was able > to get PostgreSQL working with libedit. When built with libedit, the > PostgreSQL sources do not seem to actually use the history.h header. > > Due to the licensing issues, it would be very useful if the configure > script provided a means to specify using libedit rather than > libreadline. With the current approach, libreadline is automatically
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