| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Michael Banck <mbanck(at)debian(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage |
| Date: | 2011-02-17 16:55:23 |
| Message-ID: | 4D5D52FB.6070804@dunslane.net |
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On 02/17/2011 11:44 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>
>> On 02/17/2011 11:22 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> psql used to use the native Windows line editing ability --- has that
>>> changed?
>>
>> When did it? Ad what "native" windows line editing ability are you
>> referring to?
> There is native Windows editing like arrows, etc and history, though the
> history is not kept between sessions. If windows is now using readline,
> then odds are we are shipping libreadline to make that happen, and we
> are then linking using a supplied GPL library (and we don't have the
> OS-installed exception). I hope I am wrong.
Readline has always been disabled on Windows builds AFAIK. Just look at
the buildfarm traces. Here's an example from
<http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_stage_log.pl?nm=frogmouth&dt=2011-02-17%2015%3A30%3A03&stg=configure>
configure: WARNING: *** Readline does not work on MinGW --- disabling
It's not used in MSVC either, IIRC.
cheers
andrew
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