Re: ./configure error - readline library not found

Thanks much, that was my problem.

For the record, the debian package name (which took me a while to
determine) is:

libreadline4-dev

Thanks again.

MT

Doug McNaught wrote:

> Michael Teter <mteter@1scom.net> writes:
>
>
>>Howdy.
>>
>>I looked around for an answer to this, but I was unable to find one
>>that seemed to match my situation.  (Incidentally, now I cannot get
>>archives.postgresql.org to respond to my search query...)
>>
>>I'm trying to build 7.3.4 on Libranet2.8.1 (debian).  I've built
>>PostgreSQL many times in the past on stock RedHat distros and had no
>>problem.
>
>
> You probably need to install the -devel package for readline.
>
>>I have libreadline4.3-4 installed, and I think the relevant library
>>file is /lib/libreadline.so.4
>
>
> This is the runtime part of the library, but you need the headers to
> compile, which are in the -devel package.
>
> -Doug
>
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