After I got through the Readline complaint I got an ncurses compaint, and decided I'd bring in Knoppix CD and make a Linux system out of my desktop. I bet everything will work fine on a Linux system. Brian McQueen On 12 Sep 2005 10:44:29 +0200, Nicolas Pelletier wrote:

Malcolm Wallace writes:

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Brian McQueen writes:

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I installed it and its choking while looking for libreadline. I'm not an admin on these machines, so my options are limited.

You can download and install the readline library as an ordinary user, in your own filespace. Just add LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/my/lib/dir to your environment (and export it) before proceeding with ghc.

Also, if a lurker is allowed to chime in, ghc seems to insist on the version of libreadline to use. Newer versions provide libreadline.so.5 and will not work. You will need to install a readline version 4.x in some_dir and take care that come_dir is listed first in LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

HTH.

-- Nicolas