Re: GNU readline and BSD license

On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> * The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> [001229 17:06] wrote:
> > On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > > Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> writes:
> > > > My understanding (from the recent discussion) is that Postgresql
> > > > has certain dependancies on libreadline and won't compile/work
> > > > without it,
> > >
> > > Then you're working from a misconception.
> >
> > I think the misconception that he might be working on here is the point
> > someone brought up that when configure runs, it is adding -lreadline to
> > the backend compile, even though that I don't think there is any reason
> > for doing such?
>
> I thought psql required libreadline, I'm not sure who said it.

Purely optional feature(s) .. if readline isn't found, they aren't enabled
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