Re: FreeBSD 12 and Postgres build failures

"Karl" == Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net> writes:

Karl> That was on a bare, new grab of the source from your repository and aKarl> straight-up run of "./configure --with-openssl --with-perl", then "gmake".

That's a configure line that has never worked on FreeBSD:

% ./configure --with-openssl --with-perl
[...]
configure: error: readline header not found
If you have libedit 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 libedit support.
%

Uh, it has worked on all my FreeBSD systems for a very long time; I've been running Postgres as the backend for a web forum/blogging system for the last many years.  Then again:

[karl@NewFS ~]$ pkg info|grep readline
readline-7.0.5                 Library for editing command lines as they are typed