I thought i had this fixed when I added libreadline5-devel. That worked
for the other problem with zlib.
So, following Tom Lanes' suggestion, I read through the 1300+ lines of
the config.log and found this:
configure:6651 checking for -lreadline
/usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandriva-linux-gnu/4.2.2/../../../libreadline.so:
undefined reference to 'PC' 'tgetflag''tgetext' etc etc ...
So it does not like Mandriva's package.
I downloaded readline source from cwru.edu and installed it. What that
did was add libreadline to /usr/local/lib.
But the postgresql configure shows no change, regardless of which
library directory I specify (or none, for that matter).
I could remove the mandriva package, but that would involve breaking
relationships with some 40 packages. Seems a bit of overkill.
Probabaly it is best to do without readline. Seventeen hours on this one
situation is verging on the insane.
If ONLY Mandriva used /usr/local/pgsql rather than /var/lib/pgsql, I
would have been in business.
There are hundreds of google references to this so there has to be some
underlying problem which I am not aware of and therefore cannot really
address.
Thanks for attempting to address my frustration.That is appreciated,
really!
George
