From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Moray McConnachie <moray.mcconnachie@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
Cc: Tim Joyce <tim@hoop.co.uk>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] psql trerminal behaviour
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 11:15:55 -0400
Message-ID: <3945.938618155@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <015a01bf0a8c$957930f0$760e01a3@oucs.ox.ac.uk>
"Moray McConnachie" <moray.mcconnachie@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> writes:
> As I understand it, Postgres installation requires you not only to
> have readline installed, but to have the readline header-files
> installed.
Yes; you can hardly build a readline client app from source without 'em.
> Many people may have the readline libraries installed, but
> not the headers, e.g, under RedHat 6.0, where you would need to
> install not only readline-x.y.rpm (installed by default), but
> readline-devel-x.y.rpm, which is not installed by default, IIRC. Might
> it be worth sticking something like this on the install FAQ?
Hmm, good point. I think you are right, this ought to be pointed out
somewhere in our docs.
(I'd say this is a mispackaging of readline, BTW: installed headers
belong with the library, not with the sources. By that logic a
non-devel RH system would ship with an empty /usr/include tree and you
couldn't compile *anything*. But I doubt RH cares what I think...)
regards, tom lane
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