Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On 2019-Dec-11, Robert Haas wrote: >> Are people still compiling against libedit and then redirecting to >> libreadline at runtime? I seem to recall some discussion about this >> being a thing, many years ago.
> Yeah, Debian did that out of licensing concerns. It seems they still do > that, based on > https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/postgresql-client-12 I think it's Debian's problem, not ours, if that doesn't work. It is not unreasonable for a package to probe existence of a library function at configure time. It's up to them to make sure that the headers match the actual library. regards, tom lane
