Infrastructure Software

I am trying to install rlwrap so I can use command history in sqlplus and rman command prompts. Database is 10.2.0.4 and OS is CentOS 5.

I download the zip file from here: http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/rlwrap/

...and take the following installation steps which result in error.

root ~# gunzip rlwrap-0.30.tar.gz
root ~# tar -xvf rlwrap-0.30.tar
root ~# cd rlwrap-0.30
root rlwrap-0.30# ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for strip... strip
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking errno.h usability... yes
checking errno.h presence... yes
checking for errno.h... yes
checking fcntl.h usability... yes
checking fcntl.h presence... yes
checking for fcntl.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking sched.h usability... yes
checking sched.h presence... yes
checking for sched.h... yes
checking sys/ioctl.h usability... yes
checking sys/ioctl.h presence... yes
checking for sys/ioctl.h... yes
checking for sys/wait.h... (cached) yes
checking stddef.h usability... yes
checking stddef.h presence... yes
checking for stddef.h... yes
checking termios.h usability... yes
checking termios.h presence... yes
checking for termios.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking time.h usability... yes
checking time.h presence... yes
checking for time.h... yes
checking getopt.h usability... yes
checking getopt.h presence... yes
checking for getopt.h... yes
checking curses.h usability... no
checking curses.h presence... no
checking for curses.h... no
checking ncurses/term.h usability... no
checking ncurses/term.h presence... no
checking for ncurses/term.h... no
checking whether term.h exists and compiles... no
checking whether your getopt() correctly understands double colons in option string... yes
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for pid_t... yes
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no
checking return type of signal handlers... void
checking for getopt_long... yes
checking for select... yes
checking for snprintf... yes
checking for strlcpy... no
checking for strlcat... no
checking for strnlen... yes
checking for sched_yield... yes
checking for getopt_long... (cached) yes
checking for setsid... yes
checking for isastream... yes
checking for mkstemp... yes
checking for system... yes
checking for readlink... yes
checking for setenv... yes
checking for putenv... yes
checking for openpty in -lutil... yes
checking for openpty... yes
checking for getpty... no
checking for grantpt... yes
checking for unlockpt... yes
checking for getpt... yes
checking for pty/tty type... checking pty.h usability... yes
checking pty.h presence... yes
checking for pty.h... yes
OPENPTY
configure: checking for pty ranges...
checking for tgetent... no
checking for tgetent in -lcurses... no
checking for tgetent in -lncurses... no
checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no
configure: WARNING: No termcap nor curses library found
checking for readline in -lreadline... no
configure: error:

You need the GNU readline library(ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/ ) to build
this program!