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 

8.2 will have configure --with-libedit-preferred.

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