john-paul delaney <jp@justatest.com> writes:
> I didn't install any readline-devel - just the readline4.3 tarball from gnu.org
> I just ran configure, make, make install from default.
That should work.
> It doesn't look like postgresql picked up that it had been installed.
Did you re-run PG's configure script after installing readline?
If so, look more closely at the parts of config.log that are checking
for the presence of the readline library and readline headers to try
to see if you can spot why configure is not finding it.
regards, tom lane