Re: libreadline and Debian 5 - not missing just badly named

* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> "J. Bagg" <j.bagg@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