Re: Configure script unable to find PgSQL dir

On 05/23/2012 06:56 AM, Joe Tseng wrote:
> I'm attempting to compile and install this from source but I'm getting a
> "library not found" error:
>
> # ls -l /export/appl/pkgs/pgsql
> total 4
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 6 May 23 09:29 latest -> v9.1.3
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root other 512 May 8 16:02 v9.1.3
>
> ./configure \
> --prefix=/export/appl/pkgs/psqlodbc/v09.01.0100 \
> --with-libpq=/export/appl/pkgs/pgsql/latest \
> --with-unixodbc=/export/appl/pkgs/unixodbc/latest \
> --enable-unicode \
> --host=sparc-sun-solaris2.10 \
> --disable-openssl
> ...
> checking for PQconnectdb in -lpq... no
> configure: error: libpq library not found
>
> I also configured using --without-libpq and the package was made and
> installed correctly, but I don't think it knows how to connect:
>
> # ./isql pidcim11 odbcuser xxx
> [ISQL]ERROR: Could not SQLConnect
>
> If this is not the right address to ask questions is there a forum that
> I can post my problem to?

My guess is you do not have the Postgres dev libraries for libpq. That
the libpq you are pointing at is the client binary. Verify whether you
have postgresql-dev(or equivalent) installed.

>
> thx,
>
> - Joe
>
>
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