On 7/12/2013 7:10 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
That would hardly be only true of libedit, on Apple.
It's also broken on some Red Hat versions, last I checked.
Last I heard, libedit was completely borked. Here is a report (two years
old) of still broken libedit in Debian:
http://bugs.debian.org/
On 07/12/2013 06:31 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus writes:
>> I think the current --with-libedit-preferred should go away, and be
>> replaced by a --with-libedit option which throws an error if libedit
>> isn't found.
>
> I'm not sure that will work well on systems where libedit masquerades
>
Josh Berkus writes:
> I think the current --with-libedit-preferred should go away, and be
> replaced by a --with-libedit option which throws an error if libedit
> isn't found.
I'm not sure that will work well on systems where libedit masquerades
as readline...
TBH, given the number of bugs we've
Hackers,
So I've been trying to compile PostgreSQL with libedit instead of
readline on a linux system, because of a bug in readline (will blog
about it later). This took 5 attempts, because of the peculiar nature
of our readline options in configure:
--without-readline
"compile without readline
