trouble compiling 6.8.3 using 6.8.3

[Jason Pepas]

Simon Marlow wrote:
> I think the problem you're describing never got fixed: see
> 
>   http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2970
> 
> and then we decided to replace readline with editline (bad mistake) and 
> later decided to adopt haskeline instead.  I believe some OSs (e.g. 
> FreeBSD) that put readline outside the standard locations have their own 
> hacks to get around this.
> 
> Cheers,
>     Simon

thanks, I'll try either updating to the latest version or cribbing from 
FreeBSD.

-jason