While setting up a Varnish cache server environment today, I ran into an error during the installation. The configure script threw the following error:
configure: error: readline library not found
However, thereadlinepackage had already been installed on the system.
The details are as follows:
According to the prompt, the readline package was not installed.
Check whether the system has the readline package installed:
# rpm -qa | grep readline
readline-5.1-3.el5
It was indeed already installed.Search for related readline packages using yum:
# yum search readline
Based on the search results, one package caught my eye — "readline-devel". I suspected it might be related, so Itried installing the readline-devel package.
# yum -y install -y readline-devel
After that, I went back into the Varnish installation directory, andsure enough, the installation proceeded without issues:
#make && make install
