ldd /path/to/psql should tell you if its finding the readline libraries.
you might also want to do
ldconfig -v | grep 'history'
and
ldconfig -v | grep 'readline'
to see what libraries you have. you can then verify that the libs you
have are actually where your telling pg they are supposed to be.
Robert Treat
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 10:53, Carmen Wai wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I am upgrading to postgresql version 7.2.1. I found that the psql has not
> included the readline library automatically and doesn't have any readline
> and history command function. So I configure the postgresql with option
> --with-includes=/usr/local/include and --with-libs=/usr/libs/ so that it
> should be able to search for the corresponding library and header files
> (libreadline.a, history.h, readline.h). But it still fails!!!! Does anyone
> get any idea??
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
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