using Haskell readline package on Cygwin

Hi, I'm trying to build pugs ( http://www.pugscode.org/ ) on Cygwin. I have GHC 6.6.1 (installed from MSI). Pugs build routine tries to look for the readline package and fails: $ ghc-pkg describe readline ghc-pkg.exe: cannot find package readline I have GNU readline installed as a Cygwin package, but it looks like the readline package, which appears to be standard on other GHC-supported platforms, is not installed with GHC on Windows. This problem is mentioned in the GHC FAQ ( http://tinyurl.com/2lyjno ) but there is no solution; maybe there was supposed to be a link, but it is not there now. Is it possible to install the readline package manually? Thanks in advance. (Please excuse my cluelessness - i'm a GHC newbie.) -- Amir Elisha Aharoni my band: http://www.myspace.com/tzabari/ my blog: http://aharoni.wordpress.com/

(Sorry if you received this twice. There was some problem with my mailer.) Hi, I'm trying to build pugs ( http://www.pugscode.org/ ) on Cygwin. I have GHC 6.6.1 (installed from MSI). Pugs build routine tries to look for the readline package and fails: $ ghc-pkg describe readline ghc-pkg.exe: cannot find package readline I have GNU readline installed as a Cygwin package, but it looks like the readline package, which appears to be standard on other GHC-supported platforms, is not installed with GHC on Windows. This problem is mentioned in the GHC FAQ ( http://tinyurl.com/2lyjno ) but there is no solution; maybe there was supposed to be a link, but it is not there now. Is it possible to install the readline package manually? Thanks in advance. (Please excuse my cluelessness - i'm a GHC newbie.) -- Amir Elisha Aharoni my band: http://www.myspace.com/tzabari/ my blog: http://aharoni.wordpress.com/

Hi Amir, On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 03:12:27PM +0300, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
Is it possible to install the readline package manually?
I haven't tried, but I suspect that doing a darcs get --partial http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/readline/ and then * removing the build-depend on process in readline.cabal * running autoreconf * building with Cabal as described in http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/How_to_install_a_Cabal_package will work. Thanks Ian
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Amir E. Aharoni
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Ian Lynagh