compiling pg_repack on Ubuntu 12.04 with apt.postgresql.org packages [SOLVED] about pg_repack

[jberkus]

Follow-up question: does it actually make sense to pull the full list of GCC flags from libpq-dev?

[schmiddy]

(Sorry for the late follow-up)

Yeah, from the perspective of an end-user it's silly to have pg_repack requiring libedit / libreadline.

Unfortunately we are being given the LIBS we think we need to link against by pg_config and it feels dodgy/wrong for us to ignore its instructions, although we do it anyway. I suppose we could filter out -lreadline and -ledit as well, I don't reckon we should ever need anything from those libraries. @dvarrazzo what do you think?

And @jberkus I'm a bit out of the loop on the debian packages, did libedit-dev ever get added as a dependency of libpq-dev?

[MichaelDBA]

Closing this issue since the recompiling issue is on old distro (Ubuntu 12.04) and a very old EOLed PG Version (9.3).