Answered my own question once I had time to dig a little. 

You need to have the readline-devel rpm installed as well as the readline
rpm.  

No one came forward about the QIC tape warning but I will know after I
configure the disk 'tapes' and run an amdump if it's a problem.


Dana Bourgeois


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org 
> [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org] On Behalf Of Dana Bourgeois
> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 6:44 PM
> To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: Problem configuring amanda before compiling
> 
> 
> On RedHat, I didn't run into this.  Now I'm on SsSE8.1 and 
> the ./configure gives me a warning that I don't have a 
> terminal library for interactive amrecover nor do I have the 
> vtblc stuff needed for QIC tape support. Possibly I don't 
> care.  I'm going to use the file: driver with this 
> installation and the chg-multi tape changer.  I have the 
> readline package installed.  
> 
> Anyone know if I care about these warnings and if so, which 
> packages I need to tickle YaST to install for me?  Please 
> believe that I have already tried searching by package name 
> and installed several packages that looked pertinent but 
> didn't make these warnings go away, (ummm... I just reran 
> ./configure - I didn't see anything that would 
> remove/invalidate/unconfigure the previous ./configure step).
> 
> Clues gratefully accepted.
> 
> 
> Dana Bourgeois
> 
> 
>