[GRASSLIST:5051] Re: PQsetdbLogin

[Paul Kelly]

On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 edgar at hwr.arizona.edu wrote:

> When compiling the grass source, the configuration stops with the
> following messages:
>
> ************************************
> ........
> checking for location of PostgreSQL includes... /usr/local/pgsql/include
> checking for libpq-fe.h... yes
> checking for location of PostgreSQL library...
> checking for PQsetdbLogin in -lpq... no
> checking for PQsetdbLogin in -lpq... no
> checking for PQsetdbLogin in -lpq... no
> checking for PQsetdbLogin in -lpq... no
> configure: error: *** Unable to locate PostgreSQL library.
> ************************************
>
> I've already installed postgresql-7.4.6 but the library PQsetdbLogin is
> not in my system. How can I install it?

PQsetdbLogin is a function in the library the configure script is trying 
to call from a test program, to check everything is working with the 
library. You need to look near the end of config.log to see what the 
actual problem was.