or if your distro is a newer one, they generally come with an alternative
called libedit, link that one if readline is not available for your
distribution. i had the same problem with new Ubuntu releases.
/ Usama
On Nov 29, 2007 2:23 PM, Marc Schablewski <ms@clickware.de> wrote:
> You probably don't have readline's header files installed. They are
> usually part of your linux distro, but not installed by default. Install
> the files and rerun configure.
>
> Marc
>
> paulo wrote:
> > The following bug has been logged online:
> >
> > Bug reference: 3787
> > Logged by: paulo
> > Email address: pauloric9@hotmail.com
> > PostgreSQL version: 8.0.14
> > Operating system: MANDRIVA
> > Description: configure: error: readline library not found
> > Details:
> >
> > Help -me no install
> >
> > 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.
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