Re: probably needless linking against readline and ncurses

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
To: Reinhard Max <Reinhard(at)m4x(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: probably needless linking against readline and ncurses
Date: 2005-04-11 20:09:43
Message-ID: 20050411200943.GC4948@dcc.uchile.cl
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On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 02:46:09PM +0200, Reinhard Max wrote:

> it appears all of PostgreSQL's binaries are linked against libreadline and
> libncurses, but the only one that really needs them seems to be psql.
>
> Is there a reason behind this other than that it might be easier to have
> only one set of linker switches that can be used for everything?

No. In fact somebody came up with a patch to solve that and it was
rejected because of maintenability (or portability) issues.

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[(at)]dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>)
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