| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | prlw1(at)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: GNU readline and BSD license |
| Date: | 2001-01-03 02:22:42 |
| Message-ID: | 200101030222.VAA09836@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 02:34:24AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >
> > If libedit could be used as an alternative to readline depending on your
> > operating system setup then there's nothing wrong with that. NetBSD
> > already went the other way around and made libedit compatible with
> > readline.
>
> I had an attempt at fooling configure to look in libedit rather than
> readline, and all was OK except our libedit doesn't have "rl_special_prefixes"
> so tab-complete:105 is unhappy - I don't know what it is meant to do...
>
> Re licence business, one could argue hooks are there to use NetBSD libedit ;)
Agreed. It would be nice to have configure look for libedit or
libreadline, and use either automatically.
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