that didn't fix the problem - i still get the same error message.  the configure script help should be updated though to show that these two options are available.

thanks,
james

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Judah Jacobson <judah.jacobson@gmail.com> wrote:
2008/11/13 James Swaine <james.swaine@gmail.com>:
> We've had unbelievable problems getting past this ridiculous 'unable to load
> object file or shared library libedit.so.0' error when attempting to build
> the 6.10.1 source tree.  We initially just built editline in a user
> directory and attempted to manipulate environment variables to help the
> linker (e.g. setting LIBRARY_PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and CPATH) - but this
> did no good.
>

I'm not sure whether this will fix your problem, but if you want to
build ghc using a libedit in a nonstandard location, there's an easier
solution than setting all of those environmental variables: just
configure ghc with (for example)

./configure --with-editline-includes=/opt/local/include
--with-editline-libraries=/opt/local/lib

-Judah