Re: [NOVICE] readline library not found

I thought i had this fixed when I added libreadline5-devel. That worked for the other problem with zlib.

So, following Tom Lanes' suggestion, I read through the 1300+ lines of the config.log and found this:

configure:6651 checking for -lreadline
/usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandriva-linux-gnu/4.2.2/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to 'PC' 'tgetflag''tgetext' etc etc ...

So it does not like Mandriva's package.

I downloaded readline source from cwru.edu and installed it. What that did was add libreadline to /usr/local/lib.

But the postgresql configure shows no change, regardless of which library directory I specify (or none, for that matter).

I could remove the mandriva package, but that would involve breaking relationships with some 40 packages. Seems a bit of overkill.

Probabaly it is best to do without readline. Seventeen hours on this one situation is verging on the insane.

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If ONLY Mandriva used /usr/local/pgsql rather than /var/lib/pgsql, I would have been in business.

There are hundreds of google references to this so there has to be some underlying problem which I am not aware of and therefore cannot really address.

Thanks for attempting to address my frustration.That is appreciated, really!

George

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