On Tuesday 17 February 2009 23:06:17 Isabella Ghiurea wrote:
> Trying to compile Postgres 8.3.6 and configure fails with readline lib
> missing, I have readline installed , please see all info bellow,
> OS: Linux RHES x-64 bits installation.
>
> postgresql-8.3.6$ locate readline
> /usr/lib/libreadline.so.5
> /usr/lib/libreadline.so.5.1
> /usr/lib64/libreadline.so.5
> /usr/lib64/libreadline.so.5.1
> /usr/lib64/python2.4/lib-dynload/readline.so
> /usr/share/info/readline.info.gz
> /usr/share/man/man3/readline.3.gz
> /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/standard/initrd_template/lib/libreadline.
>so.5
> /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/standard/initrd_template/lib/bittorrent/r
>eadline.so /usr/share/vim/vim70/ftplugin/readline.vim
> /usr/share/vim/vim70/indent/readline.vim
> /usr/share/vim/vim70/syntax/readline.vim
>
> postgresql-8.3.6$ ./configure --prefix /var/lib/postgres8_3_6/
> --with-libraries=/usr/lib64/libreadline.so.5.1:/usr/lib/libreadline.so.5:/u
>sr/share/:/usr/src/
> --with-includes=/usr/lib64/:/usr/lib/:/usr/share/:/usr/src/
> --enable-debug
>
>
> checking for main in -lm... yes
> checking for library containing setproctitle... no
> checking for library containing dlopen... -ldl
> checking for library containing socket... none required
> checking for library containing shl_load... no
> checking for library containing getopt_long... none required
> checking for library containing crypt... -lcrypt
> checking for library containing fdatasync... none required
> checking for library containing shmget... none required
> checking for -lreadline... no
> checking for -ledit... no
> 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. Use --without-readline to disable readline support.
Check config.log to find what's wrong.
BTW why do you need debug?
Also, you might want to use rpms from pgsqlrmps: http://yum.pgsqlrpms.org/
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