* Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: > "J. Bagg" <j.b...@kent.ac.uk> writes: > > I've just had the common problem with not finding the readline library > > while compiling/linking 8.4.4 on a new linux (Debian 5 - lenny). Nothing > > seemed to work: --with-libraries=/lib and pointing CFLAGs there all > > failed to find readline. The installed packages though said that it was > > present. > > > The problem was that this linux had libreadline.so.5.2 with the symlink > > libreadline.so.5 not libreadline.so. In other words the link had too > > specific a name for the configure checks. > > > Simple solution: create the correct symlink - libreadline.so > > On Red Hat distributions, what lack of a .so symlink means is that you > forgot to install the readline-devel subpackage (or in general, the > -devel subpackage for whatever library is involved). I believe Debian > uses a similar convention. > > The -devel package also generally carries the include files (.h files) > you need to compile anything using the library, so I'd sort of expect > that you don't get too much further with just a manually created symlink.
Exactly. On Debian, the package you're looking for is libreadline5-dev.
Thanks,
Stephen
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