> I've been having a bit of trouble compiling ghc5.02 from source on
> Solaris 2.6. The problem is that it can't find
> readline/readline.h which
> is not in a standard place since I had to compile readline
> myself. I've
> been messing around with various environment variables and
> configuration
> options, but have failed so far to communicate where this
> file is. I'm
> hoping someone can give me a suggestion. (I've reviewed the
> mailing list
> log and FAQ and have seen that readline is a problem on Solaris, but
> haven't seen anything that obviously is what I've been missing.)
>
> I hacked mk/config.mk to say GhcLibsWithReadline=YES, since I have
> libreadline.a and libtermcap.a in my LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
BTW: the "right" way to modify these variables is by overriding them in
your build.mk file, since config.mk is auto-generated every time you run
configure.
> That produced the
> aforementioned missing readline/readline.h. I tried CFLAGS=<blah> so
> that readline/readline.h should be visible but that didn't
> work either.
You can set ReadlineIncludePath in build.mk to the path containing
readline/readline.h.
> One more thing, is there a particular version of readline I should be
> using? (I'm using 4.2)
4.2 should be fine.
Cheers,
Simon
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