That still didn't do anything.  Here's the exact error text I'm getting:

error while loading shared libraries: libedit.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [cabal-bin] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jswaine/ghc/ghc-6.10.1/libraries'
make: *** [stage1] Error 2

Thanks,
James

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Christian Maeder <Christian.Maeder@dfki.de> wrote:
James Swaine wrote:
> That didn't work.  My editline build is in the directory
> /home/jswaine/libedit, with the actual library being in
> /home/jswaine/libedit/lib and the includes being in
> /home/jswaine/libedit/include.  So when I invoked the configure script,
> I did it like so:
>
> /.configure LIBRARY_PATH=$LIBRARY_PATH$:/home/jswaine/libedit/lib
> CPATH=CPATH$:/home/jswaine/libedit/include
>
> But still for some reason I get the same error.  Am I doing this correctly?

use export:

 export LIBRARY_PATH=/home/jswaine/libedit/lib
 export CPATH=/home/jswaine/libedit/include
 ./configure
 make

(and but your own path first)

Cheers Christian