On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:22 PM, zhong ming wu <mr.z.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear List > > I need to build a postgres on a linux machine that I don't have root > access. > > I built readline from source and installed it with prefix of /home/me/local > > readline library are in /home/me/local/lib and headers files are in > /home/me/local/include/readline > > After explicitly specfying these paths with --with-libs and > with-includes postgres configure is still choking > on readline. > > To check that this should work, I disabled readline with > --without-readline and configure chokes at zlib not found. > So I install zlib from source at the same prefix. This time postgres > configure finishes and then successfully built. > > reading config.log is not helpful > Huh? This I find hard to believe. Whenever I've had problems with readline it was actually libtermcap that was giving me a headache. Are you sure that there's nothing in there that's pointing you to your libtermcap being .... 'wonky' Also, try setting CFLAGS to point to your include / lib dirs (-I/path/to/include) (-L/path/to/lib) > > Now if this solution works for zlib why is it not working for readline? > > thanks > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general >
