Re: [GENERAL] readline library not found

2010-04-16 Thread Scott Mead
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Scott Mead writes: > > 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 lib

Re: [GENERAL] readline library not found

2010-04-16 Thread Tom Lane
Scott Mead writes: > 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' I think he's confusing what happen

Re: [GENERAL] readline library not found

2010-04-16 Thread Scott Mead
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:22 PM, zhong ming wu 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 ar

Re: [GENERAL] readline library not found

2010-04-15 Thread Greg Smith
zhong ming wu wrote: After explicitly specfying these paths with --with-libs and with-includes postgres configure is still choking on readline. Doing this is painful, but one hack you can try is pointing: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/me/local/lib I've used that combined with setting --with

Re: [GENERAL] readline library not found

2010-04-15 Thread Tom Lane
zhong ming wu writes: > 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 If you don't have root you're going to be in for a lot of pain here. Linux is not designed to be friendly to libraries

[GENERAL] readline library not found

2010-04-15 Thread zhong ming wu
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