Mac OS 10.3 Panther make questions

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Kevin Barnard

2004-02-17 00:05:53 UTC

I am trying to get PostgreSQL 7.4.1 to make with Mac OS 10.3 I run
configure which complains about readline. I'm not sure how Apple
compiled bash which is the new default shell but I can't find the
library or headers either. I have installed Xcode and found a few
notes online about postgres 7.3.4 and OS 10.2 which talk about making
readline and using the /sw directory which does not exist on system.
Does anybody know what I am missing?

Thank you in advance for any help
Kevin Barnard

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Jeremy Buchmann

2004-02-17 00:33:13 UTC

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Kevin,

The /sw directory is created by fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net/)
which you may want to install. It's a debian-ish packaging system
designed for bringing open-source programs to Mac OS X. I believe
PostgreSQL is available as a fink package as well, but it may not be
recent. Readline is available, and this may be the way to go if you
can't get readline to compile on its own.

Good luck,
Jeremy

Post by Kevin Barnard
I am trying to get PostgreSQL 7.4.1 to make with Mac OS 10.3 I run
configure which complains about readline. I'm not sure how Apple
compiled bash which is the new default shell but I can't find the
library or headers either. I have installed Xcode and found a few
notes online about postgres 7.3.4 and OS 10.2 which talk about making
readline and using the /sw directory which does not exist on system.
Does anybody know what I am missing?
Thank you in advance for any help
Kevin Barnard
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Tom Lane

2004-02-17 02:27:16 UTC

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... Readline is available, and this may be the way to go if you
can't get readline to compile on its own.

There isn't anything difficult about installing readline from source
on Panther. Untar, configure, make, sudo make install.

Alternatively you can just configure postgres --without-readline.
psql is a lot less pleasant to use without it, but if you don't
use psql much you may not care.

regards, tom lane

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Perez

2004-02-18 02:29:43 UTC

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Post by Tom Lane
Alternatively you can just configure postgres --without-readline.
psql is a lot less pleasant to use without it, but if you don't
use psql much you may not care.
regards, tom lane

That's what I did. Only occasionally do I miss it. The cut&paste
in the Terminal suffices for most things.

Kevin Barnard

2004-02-19 05:39:09 UTC

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Post by Tom Lane

... Readline is available, and this may be the way to go if you
can't get readline to compile on its own.

One would think this to be the case. I keep getting the following link
error

warning -dylib_install_name /usr/local/lib/libreadline.4.3.dylib not
found in segment address table LD_SEG_ADDR_TABLE
/sw/var/lib/fink/prebound/seg_addr_table

This is really a readline issue not a postgres issue. I will be using
psql quite often thus readline is very key to my sanity. :-)
I was able to compile the fink version so for now I'll just use that
and of course postgres configure is happy with it.

It just doesn't make sense that Apple would take the time to build bash
and not bother to include the readline library. I wonder if they've
modified readline a little and therefore use a static version. I guess
I could go look at the source in Darwin and see. Even with all of this
trouble I still think OS X beats a cygwined Windows for a client
machine.

Thanks again everyone for your help.

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Tom Lane

2004-02-19 06:27:23 UTC

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Post by Kevin Barnard

Post by Tom Lane
There isn't anything difficult about installing readline from source
on Panther. Untar, configure, make, sudo make install.

Hmph. I can tell you that readline builds fine for me on a fink-less
machine. The above looks like some sort of unfortunate interaction
between readline and some part of fink, but I dunno what. Anyway,
as long as fink's version of readline works for you, it doesn't seem
like our problem to chase.

Post by Kevin Barnard
It just doesn't make sense that Apple would take the time to build bash
and not bother to include the readline library.

Yeah, mighty annoying that ... maybe they can't because readline is GPL
not LGPL? The functionality inside their bash may come from some other
code, like the BSD libedit.

regards, tom lane

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Andrew Rawnsley

2004-02-17 02:05:27 UTC

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You can compile without it (--without-readline). If you don't plan on
using psql much it won't make any difference.

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Shane Wright

2004-02-18 22:19:59 UTC

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There nay be something I'm missing about why you're compiling from
source, but I'm having a great time with the binary package from
here...

http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/postgresql/

It's 7.4, not 7.4.1 so I guess that may be why - but all the
complicated bits are done and it works well! No dependencies on fink
or anything else (yeah i know, it includes a copy of everything,
wasteful but lets me get my job done...)

S

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