Peter Eisentraut wrote: > I compile PostgreSQL on Debian squeeze about 10 times a day and I have > never seen that. > > Could you show the output of > > dpkg -l \*readline\* > > As i wrote my problem was solved after installing libreadline6-dev (it was stupid of me not to check that in the first place), now i have # dpkg -l \*readline\* ... un libreadline-common <none> (no description available) un libreadline-dev <none> (no description available) un libreadline4 <none> (no description available) ii libreadline5 5.2-7 GNU readline and history libraries, run-time libraries un libreadline5-dev <none> (no description available) ii libreadline6 6.1-3 GNU readline and history libraries, run-time libraries ii libreadline6-dev 6.1-3 GNU readline and history libraries, development files un libterm-readline-gnu-perl <none> (no description available) un libterm-readline-perl-perl <none> (no description available) ii readline-common 6.1-3 GNU readline and history libraries, common files un tclreadline <none> (no description available) Just for the record, for some reason saying # apt-get build-dep postgrsql-8.4 (it doesnt install any libreadline*-dev as dependency) # apt-get source postgresql-8.4 # dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot succeeds but on that system it fails compiling from source. I must admit that i dont know that much about using computers to discuss it further whether it is bad or good thing that i need to install manually libreadline6-dev to compile from source. Now i am content with being able to compile PostgreSQL from source on Squeeze and thanks for your replies. Imre -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin