Re: problem with readline (mac os x)

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Judah Jacobson wrote:

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:27 PM, brian wrote:

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Here's the relevant bits :

checking for readline in -lreadline... yes checking for rl_readline_version... yes checking for rl_begin_undo_group... no configure: error: readline not found, so this package cannot be built

Looks like it found readline, and then decided it didn't ?

It's finding the system install of readline, which is really editline, so it later rejects it for not having enough functionality.

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I'm having fairly consisten problems with cabal packages needing symlinks in /usr/local to work properly, i.e. it can't seem to find libraries in /sw/lib where fink puts them.

Is that a cabal problem or a ghc issue ?

For the readline package you can use cabal configure --configure-option=--extra-include-dirs=/sw/include --configure-option=--extra-lib-dirs=/sw/lib

which passes the necessary arguments to the autoconf script which the readline package uses.

Sorry, that should be --configure-option=--with-readline-includes=".." --configure-option=--with-readline-libraries=".." -Judah