Re: readline

On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 08:39, Payal Rathod wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to install postgresql 7.3.1 on Linux Mdk 9.0. But when I run
> ./configure I get,
>
> configure: error: readline library not found
> If you have readline already installed, see config.log for details on
> the
> failure. It is possible the compiler isn't looking in the proper
> directory.
>
> I tried to locate the libreadline and found them at,
> /lib/libreadline.so.4@ /lib/libreadline.so.4.2@
> /lib/libreadline.so.4.1@ /lib/libreadline.so.4.3

Those look like the runtime libraries. You want one called
libreadline.so.

> So I againn ran ./configure as,
> ./configure --with-includes=/lib --with-libraries=/lib
> but still the same error.

It looks for libraries in /lib anyway. I would expect the include files
to be in /usr/include/readline

> What is going wrong? Can anyone guide me in this?

You need to install the readline development package, with the include
files and development library. Since I'm a Debian user, I don't know
what it would be called...
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