On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 2:17 AM, Andrew U. Frank
i tried to install editline (because i wanted to install djinn, which depends on it): with cabal install and with downloading and runghc Setup.lhs configure i got the same error:
checking for completion_matches... no configure: error: editline not found, so this package cannot be built See `config.log' for more details.
in the log i did not see anything helpful (at my level of understanding). i could then install with synaptic because a deb package existed for ubuntu).
what did i wrong? thanks for helpful comments
You probably need to install the Ubuntu libedit-dev package, which contains the necessary C headers. Note that's different than the libeditline-dev package, which is an old version of the library missing some important features. Best, -Judah