Re: Static build of psql with readline support

Mark Kirkwood said:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>>> To the GP, adding -lncurses (or rather the static equivalent) to your
>>> link line should solve it. But if you include any other libraries
>>> like ssl or kerberos be prepared to add a lot more.
>>
>>
>> With -lncurses or -lcurses I still can't get this to work.  I add it
>> to  the ${CC} line, right?
>>
>
> This is what I used (current 8.2 sources FreeBSD 6.0):
>
>
> *** Makefile.orig       Thu Mar 23 14:37:37 2006
> --- Makefile    Thu Mar 23 14:40:46 2006
> ***************
> *** 27,32 ****
> --- 27,34 ----
>
>   FLEXFLAGS = -Cfe
>
> + CFLAGS += -static
> + LIBS += -lcurses
>
>   all: submake-libpq submake-libpgport submake-backend psql
>

That might work on FBSD but it doesn't work everywhere  - when I tried it on
Linux I got nasty link errors.

cheers

andrew