On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 02:46:09PM +0200, Reinhard Max wrote: > it appears all of PostgreSQL's binaries are linked against libreadline and > libncurses, but the only one that really needs them seems to be psql. > > Is there a reason behind this other than that it might be easier to have > only one set of linker switches that can be used for everything?
No. In fact somebody came up with a patch to solve that and it was rejected because of maintenability (or portability) issues. -- Alvaro Herrera (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) FOO MANE PADME HUM ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])