On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 08:24:32PM -0500, Isaac Dupree wrote: > the i386 linux ghc bindist still uses readline 4 > <http://haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_682.html>, which is hard to get: > readline 5.0 came out almost three and a half years ago > <ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/> > > And I don't want to pollute my Ubuntu system with "compatibility RPMs"; in > fact I intend to install the bindist as my local user so I don't pollute it > with extra GHCs either, except I can't. Could there be a bindist with > modern readline, or perhaps is it possible to statically link with > readline? > > ~Isaac
Here's a little trick I picked up from Stefan O'Rear: sed -e 's/readline.so.4/readline.so.5' --in-place ~/lib/ghc-6.8.2/ghc-6.8.2 Surprisingly, this produces a working GHC. Cheers, Spencer Janssen _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users