#17120 closed defect (fixed)
ghc 6.10.1_0 ghci without readline
| Reported by: | marco.comini@… | Owned by: | gwright@… |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | 1.6.0 |
| Keywords: | ghc readline missing | Cc: | |
| Port: | ghc |
Description
I've succesfully installed the port, but unlike previous versions of GHC now ghci has no readline support (which is quite essential to me).
I don't know exactly if this part of the log can help
Configuring editline-0.2.1.0... ... checking for readline... no ... checking editline/readline.h usability... yes checking editline/readline.h presence... yes checking for editline/readline.h... yes ... checking for completion_matches... yes configure: error: editline not found, so this package cannot be built
Change History (4)
comment:1 Changed 16 years ago by blb@…
| Owner: | changed from macports-tickets@… to gwright@… |
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comment:2 Changed 16 years ago by axman6@…
comment:3 Changed 16 years ago by gwright@…
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
This has been fixed. You need to make sure your libedit port is version 20080712-2.11 (or later), then rebuild ghc. The previous libedit port was not detected by ghc's configure process, so ghc's libedit support was not built. This problem is not the same as ghc bug 2606 mentioned by axman6 above.
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From what i've seen in http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2606, it's an issue with libedit, which seems to be something akin to readline. It's apparently been fixed in HEAD, so hopefully there'll be a new release soon.