[Haskell-cafe] ghc on mac

[Thomas Davie]

On 26 May 2008, at 11:51, Vikrant wrote:

> Hi,
>    I am trying to install ghc-6.8.2 on mac leopard. I get following  
> error if I try to run ghci
>
> dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libreadline.5.2.dylib
>   Referenced from: /Users/vikrant/Applications/ghc/lib/ghc-6.8.2/ 
> ghc-6.8.2
>   Reason: image not found
> Trace/BPT trap

You need to install readline using MacPorts.

The current binary installer on haskell.org shouldn't need this.  How  
have you been trying to build ghc?

Thanks

Bob