Re: -HEAD configure issue with libedit on linux

On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 12:18 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 15:14 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> writes:
> > > There seem to be a number of issues with our libedit support.
> > > One of them is that we fail to build on Linux (at least on Debian
> > > Etch/4.0 x86_64 and i386) if libedit-dev is installed but not
> > > libreadline5-dev.
> > 
> > And what other ones?
> 
> Ubuntu Edgy and dapper 64bit do not suffer from this.

Sorry I was cracked. Yes Ubuntu suffers from this (thanks to Stefan for
pointing out my flaw in testing).

J


> 
> Joshua D. Drake
> 
> > 
> > > The problem is that in that configuration ./configure seems to think
> > > that there is a working strlcpy available due to the fact that it
> > > includes -ledit in the relevant configure test which seems to provide
> > > strlcpy :-(
> > 
> > Fixed.
> > 
> >             regards, tom lane
> > 
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