Tom Lane wrote: > > libreadline depends on libtermcap in RHEL-5, but so far as I can see > this dependency is explicit in the RPM, so it shouldn't have been > possible to not install termcap. (However, I'm not sure just how bright > the dependency solver was in RHEL-5 ... maybe it let you install a > 64-bit readline but only the 32-bit version of termcap?) > I suspected something like that after the results of a Google search (before posting here) --- I tried termcap-devel, and it tells me that there's no such package; then I noticed that there is the package termcap, and also libtermcap, with the accompanying libtermcap-devel. Turns out that, as Greg pointed out, it was the missing ncurses-devel. Strangely enough, the little dummy test program still reports the exact same errors when compiling with -lreadline. But PostgreSQL's configure script now runs successfully! Thanks, and thanks Greg for the valuable tip ! Carlos --
