Re: Detecting readline in configure

peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net (Peter Eisentraut) wrote in message news:<Pine(dot)LNX(dot)4(dot)30(dot)0105211728290(dot)757-100000(at)peter(dot)localdomain>...
> Every once in a while some user complains that "the cursor keys don't work
> anymore in psql". There has even been one case where a major vendor has
> shipped binaries without readline support. While we keep telling them,
> "make sure configure finds the library and the header files", this is a
> rather difficult thing for users to do reliably, especially if they are
> using a pre-packaged deal where no intervention is expected.

Just FYI,

On SGI IRIX, the libreadline is in /usr/freeware/lib and
/usr/freeware/include. It's no big thing to
add the --with-includes and --with-lib, but it would be nice if the
irix template were
told to look for libreadline there.

-Tony