[CentOS] crypto, readline and zlib libraries - Postgres install

[Karl Denninger]

Stephen Harris wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 10:22:20PM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote:
>
>   
>> Allegedly openssl (which is loaded) provides this, but...
>>
>> ./configure --with-openssl
>>     
>
> And have you installed openssl-devel?
>
> (well, clearly the answer is no because you haven't actually paid any
> attention to anything I've written)
>
>   % yum whatprovides libcrypto.a
>   [snip]
>   
>   openssl-devel.i386                       0.9.7a-43.17.el4_6.1   c4-local
>   Matched from:
>   /usr/lib/libcrypto.a
>
>   openssl-devel.i586                       0.9.7a-43.17.el4_6.1   c4-local
>   Matched from:
>   /usr/lib/libcrypto.a
>
>
> You can lead a horse to water....
>   
Hmmmm... trying man..... heh, its my first Linux.  Whadda 'ya want, 
FreeBSD since the mid 90s.

("User" installations on FreeBSD  gets you standard development 
libraires and the C compiler.  I am beginning to understand that CentOS 
looks at this more like Windows - the "base load" is in fact just a 
runtime with NOTHING development-related in it....)

Thanks....

Karl Denninger (karl at denninger.net)
http://www.denninger.net