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

- Lyle