Re: Can't get editline support to work in 6.10.1

Hi Devon, On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 08:14:40AM -0230, Devon Tucker wrote:

I recently compiled and installed GHC 6.10.1 on Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit, after having installed 6.8 from the repositories. However when I launched ghci I discovered that the arrow keys and backspace did not work! After some quick googling I came to the conclusion that editline support was not enabled. I installed any package I could find named libedit*-dev and configured and compiled GHC again.

On Debian, libedit-dev is what you want, so I assume the same is true for Ubuntu.

Checking for ghc editline package... no.

That's not important; search for Configuring editline in the build log and see what comes after that. Thanks Ian