On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Judah Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Martijn van Steenbergen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > This week I upgraded to GHC 6.10 using the .pkg installer. It installed > > without a single hiccup -- thanks! > > > > I've noticed two odd things: the standard library haddock that comes with > > the installer doesn't have links to the hs-coloured sources anymore (and > > neither does the online documentation); I miss that a lot. I also can't > > Ctrl+R anymore in GHCi to search my command history. But I can learn to > live > > without those. > > The following instructions should re-enable Ctrl-R: > > http://mult.ifario.us/p/editrc-tidbit-for-ghci > > > Another minor inconvenience is that the packages I had installed (using > > cabal) are no longer available to GHC -- I think I will have to > reinstall > > them. But I cannot continue working on my Yogurt project anymore, because > it > > depends on readline, which fails to build: > > > > <snip> > > checking for rl_readline_version... yes > > checking for rl_begin_undo_group... no > > configure: error: readline not found, so this package cannot be built > > See `config.log' for more details. > > cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: > > Yogurt-0.2 depends on readline-1.0.1.0 which failed to install. > > readline-1.0.1.0 failed during the configure step. The exception was: > > exit: ExitFailure 1 > > > The above happens because GHC is using the OS X default installation > of libreadline.a which is actually a link to libedit that doesn't > implement the full readline API. > > If you already have the MacPorts readline, you just need to tell cabal > where it is, with (for example) > > cabal install readline --extra-include-dirs=/opt/local/include > --extra-lib-dirs=/opt/local/lib > If you'd like, you can add /opt/local/include to your shell's INCLUDE_PATH and/or C_INCLUDE_PATH environment variables and /opt/local/lib to your LIBRARY_PATH and/or LD_LIBRARY_PATH variables. I say "and/or" because I don't know which one is actually necessary, but if you add it to both you'll be safe. - Phil > > -Judah > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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