more libedit.so.0 issues

[Don Stewart]

This is a straight forward ld.so path problem, by the sounds of it.
Are you sure you're setting ld environment search paths correctly?

-- Don

james.swaine:
>    that didn't fix the problem - i still get the same error message.  the
>    configure script help should be updated though to show that these two
>    options are available.
> 
>    thanks,
>    james
> 
>    On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Judah Jacobson
>    <[1]judah.jacobson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>      2008/11/13 James Swaine <[2]james.swaine at gmail.com>:
>      > We've had unbelievable problems getting past this ridiculous 'unable
>      to load
>      > object file or shared library libedit.so.0' error when attempting to
>      build
>      > the 6.10.1 source tree.  We initially just built editline in a user
>      > directory and attempted to manipulate environment variables to help
>      the
>      > linker (e.g. setting LIBRARY_PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and CPATH) - but
>      this
>      > did no good.
>      >
> 
>      I'm not sure whether this will fix your problem, but if you want to
>      build ghc using a libedit in a nonstandard location, there's an easier
>      solution than setting all of those environmental variables: just
>      configure ghc with (for example)
> 
>      ./configure --with-editline-includes=/opt/local/include
>      --with-editline-libraries=/opt/local/lib
>      -Judah
> 
> References
> 
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>    1. mailto:judah.jacobson at gmail.com
>    2. mailto:james.swaine at gmail.com

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