Re: [ADMIN] Still having trouble compiling Postgresql

i'm running suse linux, too. maybe it's not the "official" way to fix
this, but changing one line in Makefile.global did the job. after
running configure i appended " -lncurses" to the line LDFLAGS=... in
Makefile.global. i guess, there should be a separate template for suse
linux to make the change persistent?

hth
oliver

John Bright wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
> I ran another couple of attempted compiles of Postgresql,
> which unfortunately are still failing.
> (attached is the latest make.log).
> The errors I was getting before were for stuff in libreadline,
> specifically relating to terminal.o and a stack of undefined
> functions.
> I downloaded the latest GNU readline lib from sunsite, compiled
> and installed it. Copied the latest readline header files to
> /usr/include and the latest .a files to /usr/lib.
> In my previous compiles the function tputs amongst others was
> moaning it couldn't be found. I found this in tcat.h in the
> latest version of readline, so thought I would be on to a winner.
> Anyway, I did a make clean to zap any intermediary files, and
> kicked off the make all, with the enclosed output.
> Oh, by the way the Makefile offers up 2 default include path
> additions ncurses and readline. The latter directory does not
> exist and curses exists as opposed to ncurses.
> I'm using SuSE Linux 5.1. Is this a supported platform ?
> The point where the compile crashed was an inability to find
> function readline in psql.c, yet the routine readline.c has that
> routine. Beats me !!
> Would be grateful for any ideas.
> Regards
> John