i'm running suse linux, too. maybe it's not the "official" way to fix
this, but changing one line in Makefile.global did the job. after
running configure i appended " -lncurses" to the line LDFLAGS=... in
Makefile.global. i guess, there should be a separate template for suse
linux to make the change persistent?
hth
oliver
John Bright wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
> I ran another couple of attempted compiles of Postgresql,
> which unfortunately are still failing.
> (attached is the latest make.log).
> The errors I was getting before were for stuff in libreadline,
> specifically relating to terminal.o and a stack of undefined
> functions.
> I downloaded the latest GNU readline lib from sunsite, compiled
> and installed it. Copied the latest readline header files to
> /usr/include and the latest .a files to /usr/lib.
> In my previous compiles the function tputs amongst others was
> moaning it couldn't be found. I found this in tcat.h in the
> latest version of readline, so thought I would be on to a winner.
> Anyway, I did a make clean to zap any intermediary files, and
> kicked off the make all, with the enclosed output.
> Oh, by the way the Makefile offers up 2 default include path
> additions ncurses and readline. The latter directory does not
> exist and curses exists as opposed to ncurses.
> I'm using SuSE Linux 5.1. Is this a supported platform ?
> The point where the compile crashed was an inability to find
> function readline in psql.c, yet the routine readline.c has that
> routine. Beats me !!
> Would be grateful for any ideas.
> Regards
> John