Stephan Doliov <stephandoliov@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I trolled the archives as I was having difficulty in building Postgres 9.0.3 > from source. I was running configure with the following options (the pasted in > text of this I had wrapped in a shell script). I apologize in advance that > setting up the question takes a bit of context. > ./configure CFLAGS='-O2 -I /usr/local/include:/usr/include -L > /usr/local/lib64:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib64:/usr/lib' --prefix=/usr/local > --enable-nls --enable-profiling --with-wal-segsize=64 --with-perl > --with-python --with-pam --with-ldap --with-openssl --with-ossp-uuid > --with-libxml --with-libxslt --with-system-tzdata=/usr/share/zoneinfo > --with-libs=/usr/local/lib64:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib64:/usr/lib:/usr/apache2/lib > --with-includes=/usr/local/include:/usr/include > and I was constantly receiving the error that libreadline was not installed, > although I had personally installed it, verified its installation and ensured > that ldconfig could find it. Are you sure it's complaining about readline's library, and not readline's header files? That rather random --with-libs list draws my suspicion, particularly since it doesn't parallel your --with-includes list. > Upon inspecting config.log, I found many references to an error in conftest.c, > where various ifndef macros were suggesting a call to "choke me", which is both > invalid syntax (no semi colon and of course choke is not defined either in any > header files. That's pretty normal --- configure likes to try to compile things like #ifdef SYMBOL choke me #endif to find out whether SYMBOL is defined. (If it is, this'll draw a compile error, else not.) Elegance is not really something autoconf puts high priority on ... > So my questions are: > 1) upon not finding libs such as xml, xslt or the msgfmt binary, is the > configure script set (perhaps by bug) to report that libreadline is not > installed (when in fact it is?). No, I doubt that. > Another way of phrasing this question: does > configure misreport that which is missing? And that too. You'd need to show some actual evidence, and not a highly abstracted summary, to convince anyone that you've found a configure bug. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
