Re: failing to compile v. 9.0.1 on debian squeeze with readline

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I compile PostgreSQL on Debian squeeze about 10 times a day and I have
> never seen that.
>
> Could you show the output of
>
> dpkg -l \*readline\*
>
>
As i wrote my problem was solved after installing libreadline6-dev (it
was stupid of me not to check that in the first place), now i have

# dpkg -l \*readline\*
...
un libreadline-common <none> (no
description available)
un libreadline-dev <none> (no
description available)
un libreadline4 <none> (no
description available)
ii libreadline5 5.2-7 GNU
readline and history libraries, run-time libraries
un libreadline5-dev <none> (no
description available)
ii libreadline6 6.1-3 GNU
readline and history libraries, run-time libraries
ii libreadline6-dev 6.1-3 GNU
readline and history libraries, development files
un libterm-readline-gnu-perl <none> (no
description available)
un libterm-readline-perl-perl <none> (no
description available)
ii readline-common 6.1-3 GNU
readline and history libraries, common files
un tclreadline <none> (no
description available)

Just for the record, for some reason saying

# apt-get build-dep postgrsql-8.4 (it doesnt install any
libreadline*-dev as dependency)
# apt-get source postgresql-8.4
# dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

succeeds but on that system it fails compiling from source. I must admit
that i dont know that much about using computers to discuss it further
whether it is bad or good thing that i need to install manually
libreadline6-dev to compile from source. Now i am content with being
able to compile PostgreSQL from source on Squeeze and thanks for your
replies.

Imre