On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 08:24:32PM -0500, Isaac Dupree wrote:
the i386 linux ghc bindist still uses readline 4 http://haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_682.html, which is hard to get: readline 5.0 came out almost three and a half years ago ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/
And I don't want to pollute my Ubuntu system with "compatibility RPMs"; in fact I intend to install the bindist as my local user so I don't pollute it with extra GHCs either, except I can't. Could there be a bindist with modern readline, or perhaps is it possible to statically link with readline?
~Isaac
Here's a little trick I picked up from Stefan O'Rear: sed -e 's/readline.so.4/readline.so.5' --in-place ~/lib/ghc-6.8.2/ghc-6.8.2 Surprisingly, this produces a working GHC. Cheers, Spencer Janssen