Re: libedit on OS X?

Also, I am thinking we might just ship libedit with PostgreSQL in 7.5
and get rid of the readline dependency.

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Tore Halset wrote:
> On Dec 7, 2003, at 21:06, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > configure looks for libedit too; that case allegedly works on some BSD
> > variants.  Do you have a complete installation of libedit (headers as
> > well as library)?  If so, let's see the full trace of configure probing
> > for this feature ...
>
> I am running a standard Mac OS X Panther with developer tools and the
> 10.3.1 update.
>
> % ls -l /usr/include/*edit*
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  5802 13 Sep 02:23 /usr/include/histedit.h
> % head -1 /usr/include/histedit.h
> /*      $NetBSD: histedit.h,v 1.19 2002/03/18 16:00:54 christos Exp $
> */
> % ls -l /usr/lib/*edit*
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  85680 24 Sep 08:46 /usr/lib/libedit.2.dylib
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     15  6 Oct 16:35 /usr/lib/libedit.dylib ->
> libedit.2.dylib
>
> % PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/apache-ant-1.5.4/bin ./configure \
>     --prefix=/usr/local/postgresql \
>     --with-java --with-rendezvous
> [..output removed..]
> checking for readline... no
> configure: error: readline library not found
> If you have readline already installed, see config.log for details on
> the
> failure.  It is possible the compiler isn't looking in the proper
> directory.
> Use --without-readline to disable readline support.
>
> I have not included the huge config.log, but it can be viewed at this
> URL:
> http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~halset/tmp/20031207-config.log
>
> It tries to link with readline, doesnt find that and tries once more
> with libedit. ld report that _readline are undefined. /
>
>   - Tore.
>
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