Problem with configure script in 7.3.2.

"Regan, Kevin" <kregan@amazon.com> writes:

It doesn't seem to find readline even though I have it installed on my Linu=
x system. In particular, it seems to be attempting to include <readline.h>=
rather than <readline/readline.h>. In addition, it is not linking in the =
-lcurses library. It seems that these are both needed for the latest versi=
on of readline.

I don't think so. The configure script checks for readline/readline.h
*first*. And it will include -lcurses if needed to link readline.

Given that there is no one else reporting such problems on Linux,
I think there's something pretty broken about your local configuration.
Beyond the obvious "did you install readline-devel too?", I can't help
without more details.

regards, tom lane

... And it will include -lcurses if needed to link readline.

At least on my Linux box (RH 8.0), readline depends on -ltermcap
not -lcurses ... and PG's configure does figure that out.

regards, tom lane

Tom,

Thanks for the reply. If this is working for others, then it is almost certainly a configuration issue on my machine. I do not have readline-devel installed -- I'll look into getting this.

--Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 6:26 PM
To: Regan, Kevin
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [BUGS] Problem with configure script in 7.3.2.

"Regan, Kevin" <kregan@amazon.com> writes:

It doesn't seem to find readline even though I have it installed on my Linu=
x system. In particular, it seems to be attempting to include <readline.h>=
rather than <readline/readline.h>. In addition, it is not linking in the =
-lcurses library. It seems that these are both needed for the latest versi=
on of readline.

I don't think so. The configure script checks for readline/readline.h
*first*. And it will include -lcurses if needed to link readline.

Given that there is no one else reporting such problems on Linux,
I think there's something pretty broken about your local configuration.
Beyond the obvious "did you install readline-devel too?", I can't help
without more details.

regards, tom lane