Re: [PORTS] [HACKERS] Should libedit be preferred to libreadline?

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:07:15AM +0100, Zeugswetter Andreas DCP SD wrote:
> > PS: I'd prefer if readline was only linked where it is needed, namely in
> > psql.
> 
> The problem as stated is that people don't want to maintain lists of
> libraries as needed by each program, so we link all of them.
> 
> Since it seems to always be the same few libraries that cause us
> problems, maybe a simpler approach would be to, in the Makefile, use
> filter-out to exclude libraries you *know* aren't needed. Like in the
> Makefile we put:
> 
> postgres: $(OBJS)
>         $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(export_dynamic) $^ $(filter-out -lreadline -ledit, $(LIBS)) -o $@

Agreed.  I have no idea why this has not been done already.

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