On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 14:27, john-paul delaney wrote:
> Hello... I'm a newbie to postgresql. I've tried a few times to install readline 4.3, followed by postgresql 7.23,
andstill the commmand line history in pgsql doesn't function. I've used the --with-includes and --with-libraries
configureoptions to point to where the readline header and shared object files are but with similar disappointing
results. The readline .so files are in /usr/local/lib - how can I get postgresql to recognize readline is installed?
Redhat7.3 is the os.
>
> The output of ldd -v /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres does not find any readline files.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
Did you install the readline-devel stuff?
It needs to see the headers.
also, it would be psql that would see them.
FYI:
$ uname -a
FreeBSD lerlaptop.iadfw.net 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #13: Fri Oct
25 01:32:16 CDT 2002
ler@lerlaptop.lerctr.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LERLAPTOP i386
$
$ ldd `whence psql`
/usr/local/bin/psql:
libpq.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/libpq.so.2 (0x48084000)
libintl.so.4 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.4 (0x48099000)
libssl.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libssl.so.3 (0x480a1000)
libcrypto.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.3 (0x480ce000)
libz.so.2 => /usr/lib/libz.so.2 (0x48183000)
libreadline.so.4 => /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4 (0x48190000)
libcrypt.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2 (0x481b5000)
libgnugetopt.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libgnugetopt.so.1 (0x481ce000)
libm.so.2 => /usr/lib/libm.so.2 (0x481d1000)
libutil.so.3 => /usr/lib/libutil.so.3 (0x481ec000)
libc.so.4 => /usr/lib/libc.so.4 (0x481f5000)
libiconv.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x4828e000)
libncurses.so.5 => /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x48366000)
$
>
> Thanks
> /j-p.
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