Re: simple question: building psql

On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 02:17:19PM -0800, Jeff Davis wrote:
> I really like the feature of psql that allows you to press "up" to go
> to your command history, and press "home" to go to the beginning, etc
> (like a normal shell). However, I use debian linux. I have correctly
> compiled pg on a mandrake box before (so that it has the more effective
> version of psql), but never on debian. I thought it had something to do
> with curses or ncurses, but after './configure'ing it didn't put the
> libraries I have in any of the Makefiles (I have the libraries in
> /usr/lib, .so and .a). I am using 7.1beta6 (although the same thing
> seemed to happen since I have been using pg on debian). I am building
> all of postgres, not just psql.

The command history comes for "readline" on linux boxes.. When you configure
what does "checking for readline..." have to say? An

ldd `which psql`

might also provide a clue..

Cheers,

Patrick