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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Judah Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Dec 21, 2007 2:12 PM Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2 To: John Dorsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Dec 21, 2007 12:48 PM, John Dorsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On a related topic, I've been trying to build 6.8.2 on Leopard lately. > I've been running up against the infamous OS X readline issues. I know > some builders here have hacked past it, but I'm looking for a good > workaround... ideally one that works without changes outside the GHC > build area (besides installing a real readline). > > Here's what I noticed before I started drowning in the build platform. > (I'm no gnu-configure expert nor GHC insider.) > > I can get gnu-readline installed from Macports, no problem. > > The top-level configure in GHC doesn't respond to my various attempts: > > o using --with-readline-libraries and --with-readline-includes > (Although it looks like the libraries/readline/configure script > might recognize these, I can't get an option to pass through.) Actually, this is supposed to work. When running the top-level ghc configure, you should be able to just say ./configure --with-readline-libraries=/opt/local/lib --with-readline-includes=/opt/local/include and have those arguments automatically passed to the readline configure script. I just checked that this works on my machine (Tiger x86) when building 6.8.2 against MacPorts' readline. If it doesn't work for you, what errors are you getting? Also, a couple of other generic questions: - Are you on x86 or PPC? (The latter is not working right yet with Leopard.) - How are you bootstrapping the build of 6.8.2: are you using a pre-built binary of ghc-6.8.1, or some other way? Best, -Judah _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
