Re: readline missing on linux?

In article <28362(dot)1060363698(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>,
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> 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.

You also then create a difference between static and dynamic linking which
a lot of people, such as myself, hate.

-lreadline for dynamic linking but
-lreadline -ltermcap for static linking?

No thanks; I'd rather have consistency.

mrc
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