Thread: readline

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

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

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

Thanks a lot and bye.
With warm regards.
-Payal


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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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On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 08:53:12AM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> > What is going wrong? Can anyone guide me in this?
>
> You need to install the readline development package, with the include

thanks all of you for the help. I installed the devel package from the
CD and now I can install it properly.

With regards.
-Payal

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