Ashish Agarwal wrote:

I'm on a Mac, and trying to install readline through cabal. I installed the readline library through macports and thus tried the command below. However, readline is still not found. Are there other options I can try? Thank you.

$ cabal install readline --extra-include-dirs=/opt/local/include/ --extra-lib-dirs=/opt/local/lib/ Resolving dependencies... Configuring readline-1.0.1.0... 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 GNUreadline.framework... checking for readline... no checking for tputs in -lncurses... yes checking for readline in -lreadline... yes checking for rl_readline_version... yes checking for rl_begin_undo_group... no configure: error: readline not found, so this package cannot be built See `config.log' for more details. cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: readline-1.0.1.0 failed during the configure step. The exception was: exit: ExitFailure 1

It's the configure shell script that doesn't see the extra directories. Setting the CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS environment variables should do the trick. Personally, I'm using the following shell script > cat cabal-macports #!/bin/bash # Run commands with /opt/local/ directories export CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/local/include export LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib cabal $@ --extra-include-dirs=/opt/local/include \ --extra-lib-dirs=/opt/local/lib > cabal-macports install readline (Make sure you installed the MacPorts readline with +universal .) Regards, Heinrich Apfelmus -- http://apfelmus.nfshost.com