Re: Configure problems with readline Mandrake 8.2 and

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: <keehan_mallon(at)yahoo(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Configure problems with readline Mandrake 8.2 and
Date: 2002-05-14 15:31:26
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0205141125160.5063-100000@polluelo.lab.protecne.cl
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On Mon, 13 May 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> Keehan Mallon <keehan_mallon(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:

> > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/2.96/../../../libreadline.so:
> > undefined reference to `tgetnum'
>
> looks like -ltermcap is needed on your platform; but configure knows
> enough to try that.

It is. ISTM configure does detect readline, but fails to notice that
it also needs termcap to properly compile if it's devel package is not
installed. Maybe the test is not hard enough.

Try installing termcap-devel, or whatever is called, then configure
again.

--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[(at)]dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>)
"El miedo atento y previsor es la madre de la seguridad" (E. Burke)

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