On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Lyle Kopnicky
Hi folks,
I just installed GHC 6.10.4 on Ubuntu 9.04 32-bit, and then tried to install the Haskell Platform from source. It built quite a bit of stuff, with many warnings but no errors, and then finally died with the error below.
To install editline, I need cabal, which is of course why I installed the Platform. I read an earlier thread from May that said that editline came with GHC 6.10.2, so the Platform didn't work with 6.10.3, but was soon to be updated. Now the web site for the Platform says it comes with 6.10.4, so I assumed it should work with 6.10.4, but apparently it still has this problem of still missing editline.
Am I doing something wrong?
checking editline/readline.h usability... no checking editline/readline.h presence... no checking for editline/readline.h... no checking editline/editline.h usability... no checking editline/editline.h presence... no checking for editline/editline.h... no checking readline/readline.h usability... yes checking readline/readline.h presence... yes checking for readline/readline.h... yes checking for sign of read_history result on error... negative checking for rl_completion_matches... no checking for completion_matches... no configure: error: editline not found, so this package cannot be built See `config.log' for more details.
Error: Configuring the editline-0.2.1.0 package failed make: *** [build.stamp] Error 2
The above editline requirement is for the editline C library, not the Haskell bindings: http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline My guess is that you need to install a recent version of the libedit-dev package. Best, -Judah