[Haskell-cafe] Compiling GHC 6.8.3 on OS X with readline support

[Miguel Mitrofanov]

"rlwrap" adds readline support to everything.

On 7 Jul 2008, at 16:17, Chris Eidhof wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> When compiling GHC 6.8.3 on OS X, I ended up with a GHCi without  
> readline support. That makes interacting quite hard, especially  
> because the Backspace-key didn't even work. With some help on irc  
> from Baughn and by reading a blog post from Paul Brown, I managed to  
> get readline working after all.
>
> After installing readline from fink, I had to pass the following  
> options to configure:
>
> ./configure --with-readline-includes=/sw/include/readline --with- 
> readline-libraries=/sw/lib
>
> After that make and sudo make install worked just fine, and I had  
> readline again! I wrote this down in case anybody else has had the  
> same problems.
>
> -chris
>
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