I admit in shame never having heard about Haskell before. I know about PHP, Python, IBM&#39; s REXX, TCL, TCL/TK, perl... but Haskell, never.<br><br>So, here&#39;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 &quot;HMP3&quot; written in, you guessed it, Haskell.
<br><br>So I follow the directions and download the huge 30MB+&nbsp; ghc-6.6.1-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2. Bunzip2 it. tar xvf it. ./configure and &quot;make install&quot;. So far, so good.<br>and I get the following message, supposedly telling me that the haskell compiler was installed OK...
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Installation of ghc-6.6.1 was successful.<br>
<br>
To use, add /usr/local/bin to your PATH.<br>
<br>
For documentation, see /usr/local/share/ghc-6.6.1/html/index.html<br>
=======================================================================<br>
(/usr/local/bin is already in my path)<br>
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So I decide to call the ghc compiler with no arguments to see if it was indeed installed, and I get this:<br>
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[root@localhost ghc-6.6.1]# ghc<br>
/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<br>
#<br>
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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.<br>
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Goodbye Haskell, I just wanted to compile a MP3 player, and perhaps if
the compiler installed OK with no issues, I&#39;d have taken a look at the
language. But as of right now, I don&#39;t have time to waste with broken
compiler installers.<br>
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Byebye<br>
FC