16 Oct
2006
16 Oct
'06
12:37 p.m.
Björn Buckwalter wrote:
I downloaded the GHC 6.6 tarballs, built and installed them on my mac (Tiger, PPC) using the documented procedure: ./configure make make install
The build and install was fairly smooth. However, ghci will not recognize "control characters", e.g. delete/backspace, arrow keys, ctrl-a, ctrl-d et c. It seems to recognize ctrl-c for cancelling a line but will print the ^C first. A typical session may look like:
It sound like either you don't have readline installed, or the GHC build didn't detect it. Do you have readline? (the real GNU readline, not Apple's version). Cheers, Simon