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

Tue Mar 4 05:36:10 UTC 2008
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

Karl Denninger wrote:
> 
> 
> 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....)
> 

Yes - that's why there is that selection for "Development" during the 
install.  If you don't pick it, you don't get it...

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   Les Mikesell
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