Re: Integrating editline with ghc

On Jan 28, 2008 8:53 PM, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:

Judah Jacobson:

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On Jan 27, 2008 6:23 PM, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:

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AFAIK libedit (which is the editline port used in Linux distributions - http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/) needs (n)curses.

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Also, a small correction: both readline and libedit only need termcap, not curses (which provides a termcap interface).

At http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/ it says to link with

gcc -o fileman fileman.c -ledit -lcurses

and explicitly says "Note libcurses, as well as libedit, should be linked to Editline enabled programs".

Oh, sorry; I didn't see that. But when I looked through the source code and configure/build files of libedit, it seemed like it only needs libtermcap. I suspect that despite what it says on that site, either "-ledit -lcurses" or "-ledit -ltermcap" will work fine. Anyway, this is probably a moot point; I don't know of any modern systems that have termcap but not curses. (For example, on my system libtermcap.a is a symlink to libncurses.a.) Best, -Judah