I wrote:
On Mac OS X 10.4, I can't link programs that use readline unless I explicitly specify the GNUreadline framework on the ghc command line... Note that this happens for programs that explicitly use System.Console.Readline, not in general ghc use.
Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
The readline package spec should include the framework option (if not, its a bug in the config of the readline package IMO).
Judah Jacobson wrote:
I agree; the framework is supposed to be linked in automatically. Yitzchak, what version of GHC are you running? Is it a development build or a release?
The release version 6.6.1, via the (former) standard download link on the GHC web site.
Also, what is the output of the following commands?
Pasted below. Thanks, Yitz $ ghc-pkg describe readline name: readline version: 1.0 license: BSD3 copyright: maintainer: libraries@haskell.org stability: homepage: package-url: description: category: author: exposed: True exposed-modules: System.Console.Readline System.Console.SimpleLineEditor hidden-modules: import-dirs: /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.6.1/imports library-dirs: /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.6.1 hs-libraries: HSreadline extra-libraries: extra-ghci-libraries: include-dirs: /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.6.1/include includes: HsReadline.h depends: base-2.1.1 hugs-options: cc-options: ld-options: framework-dirs: frameworks: haddock-interfaces: /usr/local/share/ghc-6.6.1/html/libraries/readline/readline.haddock haddock-html: /usr/local/share/ghc-6.6.1/html/libraries/readline $ otool -L /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.6.1/ghc-6.6.1 /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.6.1/ghc-6.6.1: GNUreadline.framework/Versions/A/GNUreadline (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 5.2.0) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 88.3.7) GMP.framework/Versions/A/GMP (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.0.0)