brad clawsie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 4) The fix to the "bug" is simply download and install the libreadline4 >> shared object. No recompilation or reinstallation necessary. > > i'm not sure if this has been addressed - but is there a specific > reason an older version of the readline library is in use? v5 appears > to be stable and has been in use for some time now.
Actually some sources recommend to just symlink libreadline.so.4 to libreadline.so.5. I haven't tried, but since version 5 is supposed to be upwards compatible to version 4 it's reasonable to expect that it works (to a certain extend). To me (as an outsider) the whole thing certainly looks like a quirk/buglet in the ghc build process (why not just link to the available readline?), but IMO that is no reason for a "ghc is not ripe for prime time" outcry. Ghc is for programmers and there is a certain extend of ability to help yourself I'd be expecting from programmers. If one doesn't have it, he/she should just use the packages of his/her distro or another distro. Regards -- Markus _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe