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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:46:54 -0700 (PDT)
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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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