Re: FreeBSD 12 and Postgres build failures

On 3/19/2019 18:15, Andrew Gierth wrote:
>>>>>> "Karl" == Karl Denninger <karl(at)denninger(dot)net> writes:
> Karl> That was on a bare, new grab of the source from your repository and a
> Karl> straight-up run of "./configure --with-openssl --with-perl", then "gmake".
>
> That's a configure line that has never worked on FreeBSD:
>
> % ./configure --with-openssl --with-perl
> [...]
> configure: error: readline header not found
> If you have libedit already installed, see config.log for details on the
> failure. It is possible the compiler isn't looking in the proper directory.
> Use --without-readline to disable libedit support.
> %

Uh, it has worked on all my FreeBSD systems for a very long time; I've
been running Postgres as the backend for a web forum/blogging system for
the last many years.  Then again:

[karl(at)NewFS ~]$ pkg info|grep readline
readline-7.0.5                 Library for editing command lines as they
are typed

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