Re: Postgres 7.1.3 on OpenBSD 2.9?

It looks like there is something amiss with your installed readline
libraries. Are they GNU readline? If not, you may need to install the GNU
version. I don't recall of PG expects it precisely, and I cant say if
installing GNU will break other programs.

Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.
"Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"

> From: Pete Leonard <pete@hero.com>
> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:46:54 -0700 (PDT)
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: [GENERAL] Postgres 7.1.3 on OpenBSD 2.9?
> 
> 
> Has anyone out there succeeded in installing Postgres 7.1.3 on an
> x86-based OpenBSD 2.9 install?
> 
> My setup - 
> 
> x86 OpenBSD 2.9, out-of-the-box (no patches).
> 
> Unpacked the Postgres 7.1.3 tarball.  Configure, make, make check all
> pass.  Installed cleanly.  Updated /var/run/ld.so.hints to include
> /usr/local/pgsql/lib.
> 
> initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data/ ran fine.
> database started up without complaint.
> createdb test was fine.
> 
> Attempting to log into the database with pgsql died as follows:
> 
> bash-2.05$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql test
> Welcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
> 
> Type:  \copyright for distribution terms
> \h for help with SQL commands
> \? for help on internal slash commands
> \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
> \q to quit
> 
> /usr/libexec/ld.so: Undefined symbol "_tgetent" called from
> psql:/usr/lib/libreadline.so.0.0 at 0x40165964
> pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection
> 
> 
> Any suggestions?  There's nothing in the documentation that suggests
> special settings for installing on OpenBSD.  If there's any additional
> information I can provide, please let me know.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> --peter
> 
> 
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