wish for more-usable bindist

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