Aha!  That *seems* to have fixed the problem with libedit.so.0.  Now ghc is complaining about something else:

grep: packages: No such file or directory
make -C libraries boot
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jswaine/ghc/ghc-6.10.1/libraries'
mkdir bootstrapping
mkdir: cannot create directory `bootstrapping': File exists
make[1]: [cabal-bin] Error 1 (ignored)
/home/jswaine/ghc/ghc-6.10.1/ghc/ghc -Wall -DCABAL_VERSION=1,6,0,1 -odir /home/jswaine/ghc/ghc-6.10.1/libraries/bootstrapping -hidir /home/jswaine/ghc/ghc-6.10.1/libraries/bootstrapping -i/home/jswaine/ghc/ghc-6.10.1/libraries/Cabal -i/home/jswaine/ghc/ghc-6.10.1/libraries/filepath -i/home/jswaine/ghc/ghc-6.10.1/libraries/hpc --make cabal-bin -o cabal-bin
ghc: missing -B<dir> option
make[1]: *** [cabal-bin] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jswaine/ghc/ghc-6.10.1/libraries'
make: *** [stage1] Error 2

Thanks!
-James

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Christian Maeder <Christian.Maeder@dfki.de> wrote:
James Swaine wrote:
> 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
>     use export:
>

and
 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/jswaine/libedit/lib

Are you sure /home/jswaine/libedit/lib/libedit.so.0 is a valid file?

C.