> We've gotten several different reports lately of peculiar compilation > errors and warnings involving readline in 7.1. They look like configure > is actively doing the wrong thing --- for example, how could we see > reports like this: > > tab-complete.c:734: `filename_completion_function' undeclared (first use in this >function) > tab-complete.c:734: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once > tab-complete.c:734: for each function it appears in.) > > when the code makes a point of providing a declaration for > filename_completion_function if configure didn't see it in the headers? > > After eyeballing the code I think I have a theory. psql/input.h will > preferentially include <readline/readline.h>, not <readline.h>, if both > HAVE_READLINE_READLINE_H and HAVE_READLINE_H are defined. But the tests > in configure make the opposite choice! Maybe the people who are having > trouble have two different versions of readline header files visible at > those two names, leading to configure's results being wrong for the > header file that input.h actually selects? This sounds like an excellent guess. Hard to imagine how readline has gotten such a bizarre list of configurations. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
