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 # 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. 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