On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Christian Maeder
Hallo Judah,
I've build http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/libedit-20080712-2.11.tar.gz and it was linked against libcurses:
-bash-3.1$ ldd /usr/local/lib/libedit.so.0 libcurses.so.1 => /lib/libcurses.so.1 libc.so.1 => /lib/libc.so.1 libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/local/lang/lib/gcc/i386-pc-solaris2.10/4.2.2/libgcc_s.so.1 libm.so.2 => /lib/libm.so.2
When building ghc-6.10.1 your configure script prefers ncurses over curses, therefore I get an additional dependency for ghc:
libncurses.so.5 => /usr/local/lib/libncurses.so.5
For (the usual) dynamic linking just "-ledit" is enough, only for static linking "-lcurses" or "-lncurses" is needed, otherwise "term.o" is the "Undefined symbol".
(By chance, I've only libncurses.a and no libcurses.a for static linking.)
I'm not sure which dependency to prefer. configure of libedit-20080712-2.1 prefers curses over ncurses.
Cheers Christian
Christian, I've updated the repo at http://code.haskell.org/editline/ with a fix. The editline package now behaves the same way as libedit (preferring to link against curses over ncurses). Can you please verify whether that works for you? Thanks, -Judah