Re: ghc for SuSE. Reply

Serge D. Mechveliani wrote:

To my request on GHC-6.4.1 for SuSE 10.0

Christian Maeder writes on 17 Mar 2006

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First, we install it to the system area from binary found on the GHC www page as Binary x86, Generic Linux with glib 2.3.

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This binary is not for a 64 bit arch, I think.

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/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.0.2/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lreadline

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you may try: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.4.1/ghc-6.4.1-x86_64-unknown-linux.tar.bz2

Thank you. I have installed it to my user directory.

Now, again, it reports --------- ghc $doconCpOpt --make Main Chasing modules from: Main Skipping Main ( Main.hs, Main.o ) Linking ... /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.0.2/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lreadline collect2: ld returned 1 exit status ----------

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which ghc

/home/mechvel/ghc/6.4.1/binary/inst/bin/ghc

-- this is of ghc-6.4.1-x86_64-unknown-linux.tar.bz2 . There also is visible

/home/mechvel/ghc/6.4.1/binary/inst/lib/ghc-6.4.1/libHSreadline.a

But it, probably, searches for shared library in other place. Maybe, we need to remove this old ghc- x86 Generic Linux with glib 2.3,

to think of path, etc. We shall try.

You probably need to install the readline-devel RPM on your system. GHC is looking for the readline library, and not finding it. Cheers, Simon