On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 2:17 AM, Andrew U. Frank <[email protected]> wrote: > i tried to install editline (because i wanted to install djinn, which depends > on it): > with cabal install and with downloading and runghc Setup.lhs configure > i got the same error: > > checking for completion_matches... no > configure: error: editline not found, so this package cannot be built > See `config.log' for more details. > > > in the log i did not see anything helpful (at my level of understanding). > i could then install with synaptic because a deb package existed for ubuntu). > > what did i wrong? thanks for helpful comments
You probably need to install the Ubuntu libedit-dev package, which contains the necessary C headers. Note that's different than the libeditline-dev package, which is an old version of the library missing some important features. Best, -Judah _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
