Tara Athan wrote:
However, I get this error message from the ./configure command:
checking test program... failed
configure: error:
Could not execute a simple test program. This may be a problem
related to locating shared libraries. Check the file 'config.log'
for the exact reason.
Go into the config.log, and work backward until you find the complaint
it reported. I see it:
configure:17451: gcc -o conftest -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels
-fno-strict-aliasing -D_GNU_SOURCE -I/home/alttwois/usr/local/include
-lstdc++ -L/home/alttwois/usr/local/lib conftest.c -lz -lreadline
-ltermcap -lcrypt -ldl -lm >&5
configure:17454: $? = 0
configure:17456: ./conftest
./conftest: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.5:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
configure:17459: $? = 127
configure: program exited with status 127
configure: failed program was:
Your compiler setup can't even find the readline library. Ouch. I think
you can compile PgSQL --without-readline, but scraping by without line
history editing isn't pleasant.
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