[Haskell-cafe] Re: Building/Prerequisites->Linux->glibc-devel libedit-devel ?

Antoine Latter wrote:

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Windoze wrote:

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Greetings,

am considering learning how to do a build for my slackware-based distro.

The doc sited below say's it requires:

glibc-devel libedit-devel ncurses-devel gmp-devel .etc.

Must I used the dev versions, or will it work with the lastest, stable release versions of same?

By "dev version" the instructions mean "be sure to install the C header files." In Debian-like distros, such packages have the "-dev" suffix.

I'm in the process of updating these instructions. I'd be grateful if people could take a look and fix any errors, and also add other Linux distros: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Linux Cheers, Simon