Re: [HACKERS] Should libedit be preferred to libreadline?

On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 15:12 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >
> > > OK, updated text:
> > >
> > >   --with-openssl          build with OpenSSL support
> > >   --with-libedit-preferred  prefer Libedit over Libreadline
> > >   --without-readline      do not use Libreadline/Libedit line editing
> > >   --without-zlib          do not use Zlib
> >
> > This all seems kind of extra... Why not just:
> >
> > --with-libedit    Use libedit instead of readline
> > --with-readline    Use readline instead of libedit (default)
> > --without-readline Use when readline is not available
> >
>
> Did you read my later posting?  There is no reasonable default for
> those unless we want to disable libedit detection by default,

Well that is why I said that --with-readline is the default ;)

>  and as Tom
> mentioned, for OSX it isn't even clear which one you have found.

Hmmm... Can we change the config options based on FreeBSD/OSX? Where
if it is that platform libedit is the default?

Of course is OSX can't determine which one it is giving to the user that
seems like a PITA.

Joshua D. Drake


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