Re: simple question regarding the building of psql

Jeff Davis writes:

> 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).

Install GNU readline, including the header files.

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