| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Alfred Perlstein <bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: GNU readline and BSD license |
| Date: | 2000-12-30 01:27:49 |
| Message-ID: | 17827.978139669@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> someone brought up that when configure runs, it is adding -lreadline to
> the backend compile, even though that I don't think there is any reason
> for doing such?
There isn't --- configure is just sloppy in that it supplies the same
library list for all programs we build. (This might be a fair amount
of work to change; never looked at it.)
However, I don't see what that has to do with the licensing argument.
We stand or fall on psql's use of libreadline, and having useless
dependencies from other executables doesn't alter anything that I can
see.
regards, tom lane
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