On 10/23/18 1:51 PM, Vaidyanathaswamy, Anandsaikrishnan wrote: > 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.
The missing library provides features like previous command recall and editing in psql. If those features are valuable to you, you can install the readline library; otherwise, you can add --without-readline on the configure command, and build PostgreSQL without it. -Chap
