Today while setting up a Varnish cache server environment, I encountered an issue during installation. When running the configure script, it threw the following error:
configure: error: readline library not found
I had already installed the readline package on the system beforehand.
Here are the details:
According to the error message, it seems the readline package was not installed.
Checked whether the readline package was installed on the system:
# rpm -qa | grep readline
readline-5.1-3.el5
It was indeed already installed. Searched for related readline packages via yum:
# yum search readline
Then, as the results suggested, a package caught my attention: "readline-devel". I guessed it might be related and decided to install the readline-devel package to test.
# yum -y install -y readline-devel
After that, I went back into the Varnish installation directory, and sure enough, it could now be installed normally:
#make && make install
