more libedit.so.0 issues

James Swaine james.swaine at gmail.com
Fri Nov 14 12:46:08 EST 2008


that didn't fix the problem - i still get the same error message.  the
configure script help should be updated though to show that these two
options are available.

thanks,
james

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Judah Jacobson
<judah.jacobson at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2008/11/13 James Swaine <james.swaine at gmail.com>:
> > We've had unbelievable problems getting past this ridiculous 'unable to
> load
> > object file or shared library libedit.so.0' error when attempting to
> build
> > the 6.10.1 source tree.  We initially just built editline in a user
> > directory and attempted to manipulate environment variables to help the
> > linker (e.g. setting LIBRARY_PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and CPATH) - but this
> > did no good.
> >
>
> I'm not sure whether this will fix your problem, but if you want to
> build ghc using a libedit in a nonstandard location, there's an easier
> solution than setting all of those environmental variables: just
> configure ghc with (for example)
>
> ./configure --with-editline-includes=/opt/local/include
> --with-editline-libraries=/opt/local/lib
>
> -Judah
>
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