Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Chris Campbell wrote: >> If that's the case, how hard would it be to link only psql with >> readline (or libedit)?
> This is already addressed, more or less, in 8.2. We've suppressed libreadline in the backend, but not in any of the other client programs (eg, pg_dump still has it). Not sure whether Chris really cares about those. In any case, I think it's inappropriate for configure to know exactly which programs need which libraries. It'd probably be more maintainable in the long run to propagate src/backend/Makefile's technique into the other Makefiles: # The backend doesn't need everything that's in LIBS, however LIBS := $(filter-out -lz -lreadline -ledit -ltermcap -lncurses -lcurses, $(LIBS)) with suitable adjustment of the filter list for each program. (But possibly "-lreadline -ledit -ltermcap -lncurses -lcurses" should be factored out as a READLINE_LIBS variable or some such.) regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster