On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:28:48 -0300
"Fernando Cassia"
I admit in shame never having heard about Haskell before. I know about PHP, Python, IBM' s REXX, TCL, TCL/TK, perl... but Haskell, never.
So, here's how I landed in Haskell-land: I was looking for a simple ncurses-based text mode mp3 player with some sort of basic GUI and found "HMP3" written in, you guessed it, Haskell.
So I follow the directions and download the huge 30MB+ ghc-6.6.1-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2. Bunzip2 it. tar xvf it. ./configure and "make install". So far, so good. and I get the following message, supposedly telling me that the haskell compiler was installed OK... ======================================================================= Installation of ghc-6.6.1 was successful.
To use, add /usr/local/bin to your PATH.
For documentation, see /usr/local/share/ghc-6.6.1/html/index.html ======================================================================= (/usr/local/bin is already in my path)
So I decide to call the ghc compiler with no arguments to see if it was indeed installed, and I get this:
[root@localhost ghc-6.6.1]# ghc /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.6.1/ghc-6.6.1: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory #
Yes, that is a bit annoying. The readline issues are mentioned on the download page though -- you were warned ;). GHC 6.6.1 is only a day old, so there aren't very many binary builds available. On the other hand, GHC 6.6 has RPMs for FC5: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_66.html#x86linux
So, I conclude that Haskell is not ready for prime time, if it cannot install itself correclty including shared libs in a standard Fedora Core 6 system.
Please don't make generalizations from a single experience with a compiler version that is less than a day old.
Goodbye Haskell, I just wanted to compile a MP3 player, and perhaps if the compiler installed OK with no issues, I'd have taken a look at the language. But as of right now, I don't have time to waste with broken compiler installers.
Byebye FC
Cheers, Spencer Janssen