ghc for SuSE. Reply

[Simon Marlow]

Serge D. Mechveliani wrote:
> To my request on  GHC-6.4.1  for SuSE 10.0
> 
> Christian Maeder <maeder at tzi.de> writes on  17 Mar 2006
> 
> 
>>>First, we install it to the system area  from binary  found on the GHC www 
>>>page as
>>>          Binary x86,  Generic Linux with glib 2.3.
> 
> 
>>This binary is not for a 64 bit arch, I think.
> 
> 
>>>/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.0.2/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lreadline
> 
> 
>>you may try:
>>http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.4.1/ghc-6.4.1-x86_64-unknown-linux.tar.bz2
> 
> 
> 
> Thank you.
> I have installed it to my user directory.
> 
> Now, again, it reports
> ---------
> ghc $doconCpOpt --make Main
> Chasing modules from: Main
> Skipping  Main             ( Main.hs, Main.o )
> Linking ...
> /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.0.2/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lreadline
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> ----------
> 
>  > which ghc
> 
>   /home/mechvel/ghc/6.4.1/binary/inst/bin/ghc  
> 
> -- this is of  ghc-6.4.1-x86_64-unknown-linux.tar.bz2 .
> There also is visible
> 
>   /home/mechvel/ghc/6.4.1/binary/inst/lib/ghc-6.4.1/libHSreadline.a
> 
> But it, probably, searches for shared library in other place.
> Maybe, we need to remove this old
>        ghc- x86  Generic Linux with glib 2.3,
> 
> to think of path, etc. We shall try.

You probably need to install the readline-devel RPM on your system.  GHC 
is looking for the readline library, and not finding it.

Cheers,
	Simon