Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think the switches are confusing ... when you are using libedit, you > certainly don't want readline as well, so it seems natural to disable > it. I understand that what --without-readline really does is turn the > line-editing capability off in general rather than just readline, which > is confusing.
The documentation could be improved perhaps: $ ./configure --help | grep -i edit --with-libedit-preferred prefer BSD Libedit over GNU Readline --without-readline do not use GNU Readline / BSD Libedit line editing $ ISTM the second line would be clearer if it read --without-readline do not use GNU Readline nor BSD Libedit for editing Also, we probably ought to see if we can make the libedit-preferred line come out second. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster