Re: Postgress 8 cant find "readline" and "zlib" on Debian Woody 3.0 r2 --help

[Frank Gevaerts <frank@gevaerts.be>]

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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