Trouble installing GHC binary on Sparc

[Simon Marlow]

On 02 December 2004 01:45, Dan Vanderkam wrote:

> I've installed GHC on a Sparc machine, but when I run ghci, I get the
> following error message:
> 
> ld.so.1: /net/snowy/danvk/ghc-6.2.1/lib/sparc-sun-solaris2/ghc-6.2.1:
> fatal: libreadline.so.4: open failed: No such file or directory
> 
> The binary package I downloaded from www.haskell.org/ghc warned me
> against this:
> "NOTE: you'll need libreadline.so.4 and libncurses.so.5. You should
> ensure you have this before you start, since without it GHC won't work
> at all. Grab the ncurses sources from GNU and build it if you don't
> have it."
> 
> My question is where I can get this libreadline.so.4 file. I
> downloaded ncurses from freshmeat and installed it, but it didn't
> create either of those files on the Sparc machine. Any advice would
> be much appreciated. 

You also need to build & install readline.  I'll update that page to be
a bit more explicit.

Cheers,
	Simon