Re: Detecting readline in configure

Tom Lane writes:

> I suggest that the behavior of configure not be changed, but that it be
> tweaked to put out a slightly more obvious notice about not being able
> to find readline support.  Maybe
>
>     checking for libreadline ... no
>     checking for libedit ... no
>     *
>     * NOTICE: I couldn't find libreadline nor libedit.  You will
>     * not have history support in psql.
>     *

This may be useful as well, but it doesn't help those doing unattended
builds, such as RPMs and *BSD ports.  In that case you need to abort to
notify the user that things didn't go the way the package maker had
planned.

Let's do both.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter