On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 03:53:34PM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: > Without readline, zlib and the crypto libraries you can't build the full > 8.3 release....... and installing 8.1 as a distro doesn't get you the > libraries you need to build. We distinguish between runtime libraries and development libraries, so you'll see packages like "readline" and "readline-devel". You need the -devel versions installed to compile. So; readline-devel, zlib-devel and so on. -- rgds Stephen