Re: readline missing on linux?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Just a question --- if you link readline against -ltermcap when the
> > library is created, you don't need to add -ltermcap when you link apps
> > to readline, right? You somehow bind the dependency in to the shared
> > library, right?
>
> It could be done that way, but apparently is not on many platforms.
> What configure is testing for is to see whether "-lreadline" links
> successfully without a following "-ltermcap". It doesn't.

Yes, that's what I thought. Someone submitted a patch to add -lm to
ecpglib because it seems it needs it now and we don't want all the apps
to have to link it in.

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