Re: [ADMIN] Still having trouble compiling Postgresql

On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Oliver Mueschke wrote:

> 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?

v6.4 will check for both -lncurses and -lcurses ...

>
> 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
>