GHC 6.8.1 Build Failure on Mac OS X Intel 10.4.10

[Bjorn Bringert]

I have this in my ~/.profile so that I don't have to keep giving  
flags to configure for every single thing I build against MacPorts  
libraries:

export CPATH=/opt/local/include
export LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/local/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/local/lib

/Björn


On Nov 9, 2007, at 6:13 , Paul Brown wrote:

>
> Try:
>
> ./configure --with-readline-include=/opt/local/include/readline -- 
> with-readline-libraries=/opt/local/lib
>
> And this should work with the readline libs that you have installed  
> via MacPorts.  (Worked for me to build 6.8.1, and ghci works like  
> it should.)
>
> -- Paul
>
>
> On Nov 8, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Denis Bueno wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Apologies if this has already been reported, or is a symptom of
>> something already reported.
>>
>> I downloaded the GHC source
>> (http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.8.1/ghc-6.8.1-src.tar.bz2) and
>> attempted to build as follows, bootstrapping with GHC 6.6.1:
>>
>>     ./configure ; make -j3
>>
>> (The error manifests even without `-j3'.)  This eventually results in
>> the error [1]:
>>
>>     ghc-pkg: dependency readline doesn't exist (use --force to  
>> override)
>
> [... snip ...]