Re: Configure fails to find readline libraries

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Jeffrey Trimble <jtrimble(at)cc(dot)ysu(dot)edu>wrote:

> Hi...Here's the output of that one:
> ldd /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so
> linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7e9c000)
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb8055000)
> ddev:/ #
>

Not really sure what the problem is then, it's probably obvious but I'm
jet-lagged and running on low blood sugar /caffeine right now.

There are two versions of readline. REadline 5.2 and Readline 6.0 Readline
> 5.2 was installed during
> the suse linux installation but it never installed the readline.h file. Go
> figure.
>

The easiest way to deal with that is just to install the 'readline-devel'
package via YaST. That may help.

--Scott

>
> --Jeff
>
> Jeffrey Trimble
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>
>
> On May 19, 2009, at 7:28 PM, Scott Mead wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Jeffrey Trimble <jtrimble(at)cc(dot)ysu(dot)edu>wrote:
>
>> Hi.. thanks.
>> Here's a printout from my find command:
>>
>> /usr/local/include/readline
>> /usr/local/include/readline/readline.h
>>
>>
>> And the plot thickens. Here is where it errors out and then loops
>> endlessly until it quits:
>> (There are symbolic links from libreadline.so to libreadline.so.6.0)
>>
>> configure:6240: $? = 0
>> configure:6243: test -s conftest
>> configure:6246: $? = 0
>> configure:6316: result: none required
>> configure:6337: checking for -lreadline
>> configure:6364: gcc -o conftest -I/usr/local/include
>> -I/usr/local/include/readline -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith
>> -Winline -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing
>> -fwrapv -D_GNU_SOURCE -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/readline
>> -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib conftest.c -lreadline -lcrypt -ldl -lm
>> >&5
>>
> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `PC'
>> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetflag'
>> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetent'
>> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `UP'
>> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tputs'
>> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgoto'
>> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetnum'
>> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `BC'
>> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetstr'
>>
>
> What happens if you run
>
> ldd /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so ?
>
> It looks like you've got either multiple versions of readline
> installed and you're linking to the wrong one, or something is really wonky
> with your readline build. A quick google is showing that all of those
> symbols are in ncurses, which means that you should probably have ncurses in
> your linker cache or linker runtime path.
>
> By the way, if you don't want readline functionality in psql (or care),
> just build '--without-readline'
>
> --Scott
>
>
>