editline in ghc-6.10.1 under Solaris

[Judah Jacobson]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Christian Maeder
<Christian.Maeder at dfki.de> wrote:
> Hallo Judah,
>
> I've build
> http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/libedit-20080712-2.11.tar.gz
> and it was linked against libcurses:
>
> -bash-3.1$ ldd /usr/local/lib/libedit.so.0
>        libcurses.so.1 =>        /lib/libcurses.so.1
>        libc.so.1 =>     /lib/libc.so.1
>        libgcc_s.so.1 =>
> /usr/local/lang/lib/gcc/i386-pc-solaris2.10/4.2.2/libgcc_s.so.1
>        libm.so.2 =>     /lib/libm.so.2
>
> When building ghc-6.10.1 your configure script prefers ncurses over
> curses, therefore I get an additional dependency for ghc:
>
>        libncurses.so.5 =>       /usr/local/lib/libncurses.so.5
>
> For (the usual) dynamic linking just "-ledit" is enough, only for static
> linking "-lcurses" or "-lncurses" is needed, otherwise "term.o" is the
> "Undefined symbol".
>
> (By chance, I've only libncurses.a and no libcurses.a for static linking.)
>
> I'm not sure which dependency to prefer. configure of
> libedit-20080712-2.1 prefers curses over ncurses.
>
> Cheers Christian
>

Christian, I've updated the repo at http://code.haskell.org/editline/
with a fix.  The editline package now behaves the same way as libedit
(preferring to link against curses over ncurses).

Can you please verify whether that works for you?

Thanks,
-Judah