Integrating editline with ghc

[Duncan Coutts]

On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 12:25 +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 16:41 +1100, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
> 
> > To summarise,
> > 
> > * I don't think it is feasible to entirely drop readline from ghci (as  
> > some widely used Linux distributions, eg, Fedora 7 and Solaris doesn't  
> > support sufficiently recent versions of editline).
> 
> Indeed. I tried to build the editline package that was just uploaded to
> hackage and discovered that Gentoo does not package the editline C
> library at all.

I spoke too soon. It is packaged as libedit (I was looking for
editline).

Duncan