On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Lyle Kopnicky <li...@qseep.net> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I just installed GHC 6.10.4 on Ubuntu 9.04 32-bit, and then tried to install > the Haskell Platform from source. It built quite a bit of stuff, with many > warnings but no errors, and then finally died with the error below. > > To install editline, I need cabal, which is of course why I installed the > Platform. I read an earlier thread from May that said that editline came > with GHC 6.10.2, so the Platform didn't work with 6.10.3, but was soon to be > updated. Now the web site for the Platform says it comes with 6.10.4, so I > assumed it should work with 6.10.4, but apparently it still has this problem > of still missing editline. > > Am I doing something wrong? > > checking editline/readline.h usability... no > checking editline/readline.h presence... no > checking for editline/readline.h... no > checking editline/editline.h usability... no > checking editline/editline.h presence... no > checking for editline/editline.h... no > checking readline/readline.h usability... yes > checking readline/readline.h presence... yes > checking for readline/readline.h... yes > checking for sign of read_history result on error... negative > checking for rl_completion_matches... no > checking for completion_matches... no > configure: error: editline not found, so this package cannot be built > See `config.log' for more details. > > Error: > Configuring the editline-0.2.1.0 package failed > make: *** [build.stamp] Error 2
The above editline requirement is for the editline C library, not the Haskell bindings: http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline My guess is that you need to install a recent version of the libedit-dev package. Best, -Judah _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe