"J. Bagg" <j.bagg@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I've just had the common problem with not finding the readline library > while compiling/linking 8.4.4 on a new linux (Debian 5 - lenny). Nothing > seemed to work: --with-libraries=/lib and pointing CFLAGs there all > failed to find readline. The installed packages though said that it was > present. > The problem was that this linux had libreadline.so.5.2 with the symlink > libreadline.so.5 not libreadline.so. In other words the link had too > specific a name for the configure checks. > Simple solution: create the correct symlink - libreadline.so On Red Hat distributions, what lack of a .so symlink means is that you forgot to install the readline-devel subpackage (or in general, the -devel subpackage for whatever library is involved). I believe Debian uses a similar convention. The -devel package also generally carries the include files (.h files) you need to compile anything using the library, so I'd sort of expect that you don't get too much further with just a manually created symlink. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
