> However, it seems you are right: whenever _some_ ghc package needs > util, it will implicitly depend on libreadline being installed, even > if readline is never really linked to. > > So, what can be done? > > The hot-fix is to install libreadline4-dev.
Done. Works. Thanks. > I _could_ make readline a hard dependency of ghc, but this is somehow > not satisfactory. I'd rather like readline to be out-factored to its > own package (I know, this would break other Haskell programs, but it's > arguably easy-to-fix breakage...). > > Comments? For a newbie like me, it would be useful to have a `virtual' package ghc-util for `ghc programs that need util'. This could then require libreadline4-dev. The key is that something show up in dpkg --list ghc* Otherwise the need for libreadline4-dev is not obvious to the amateur. Norman _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
