From: Moray McConnachie <moray.mcconnachie@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
To: Tim Joyce <tim@hoop.co.uk>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: paneris administration <administration@messageboards.paneris.org>
Cc: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] psql trerminal behaviour
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 16:09:10 +0100
Message-ID: <015a01bf0a8c$957930f0$760e01a3@oucs.ox.ac.uk> (raw)
References: <3296.938612559@sss.pgh.pa.us>
----- Original Message -----
> "Tim Joyce" <tim@hoop.co.uk> writes:
> > i think that the postgres build should check more thoroughly that
> > /usr/include/readline/*.h exists and not let you make with out it,
>
> That cure would be a lot worse than the disease!
Agreed.
> > as pgsql is quite unusable without arrow and del keys.
>
> If you don't have readline installed, then you're not used to using
it,
> so I doubt you will consider psql "unusable" without it. Postgres
is
> already a pain to install; adding more required prerequisite
packages
> would make it worse...
As I understand it, Postgres installation requires you not only to
have readline installed, but to have the readline header-files
installed. Many people may have the readline libraries installed, but
not the headers, e.g, under RedHat 6.0, where you would need to
install not only readline-x.y.rpm (installed by default), but
readline-devel-x.y.rpm, which is not installed by default, IIRC. Might
it be worth sticking something like this on the install FAQ?
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Moray.McConnachie@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
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