I would suggest a conditional dependency.

Look into pkgsrc. I've seen some thing like
.if Not "NetBSD"
 add dependence here
.endif

searching Makefiles for readline should be a great candidate for finding 
some inspiration.


Chris Ross wrote:

>   Well, that's a fine reason then.  That's what I was asking about.
>
>   I don't know the "procedure" for bundling a pkgsrc release, and
> I know that postgres is not a simple one to do.  But, I noticed that
> it's a couple teeny releases behind.  Is anyone working on updating
> to 7.4.5?  If not, would it be worth me trying to do so?  Any pointers
> to "How-To's" about making a pkgsrc blob for NetBSD much appreciated.
>
>              - Chris
>
> On Sep 23, 2004, at 02:07, Marc Recht wrote:
>
>>>   This seems broken to me.  Does someone know of a good reason why
>>> libedit isn't sufficient?  If not, can we please fix it to not 
>>> require the libreadline
>>> package?
>>
>
>>> Because psql coredumps (at least on 2.0_BETA) with libedit.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Marc
>>
>
>