Re: Postgress 8 cant find "readline" and "zlib" on Debian Woody 3.0 r2 --help
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:30:40PM +0530, Siju George wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to install postgresql ver 8.0.1 on my Debian Woody 3.0 r2
>
> While configuring I get the following error
>
> configure: error: readline library not found
> If you have readline already installed, see config.log for details on the
> failure. It is possible the compiler isn't looking in the proper directory.
> Use --without-readline to disable readline support.
>
> but the
>
> libreadline4 (4.2a-5) GNU readline and history libraries, run-time libraries.
>
> is installed on my Debian as you can see
You need the development libraries, not only the runtime ones. Try
installing libreadline4-dev and zlib1g-dev
Frank
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Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
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