[EMBOSS] compiling problems

[ajb at ebi.ac.uk]

Hi Shrish,

The problem appears to be with your PostgreSQL development files
under RHEL. The EMBOSS configuration is picking up that
your system says it has the development files installed and is
including the relevant library that should contain
the function 'PQescapeStringConn' i.e. libpq (-lpq). From the
error it appears the function isn't there for some reason.

I have not seen this problem on other systems but, as the SQL
stuff is a new addition from 6.3.0 I'd be interested to know if people
have had similar experiences on non-RHEL machines.

I'll likely contact you off-list with a follow-up question. In the
meantime, if you cannot update your PostgreSQL then you can always
'make clean' and configure again using:

    --without-postgresql

as your system is reporting that it also has MySQL (which will allow
you access to mysql servers [obviously] and the public Ensembl ones).

ATB

Alan