Backspace in ghci-6.10.1-candidate

[Judah Jacobson]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:42 AM, Judah Jacobson
<judah.jacobson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Serge D. Mechveliani <mechvel at botik.ru> wrote:
>> This is about testing  6.10.0.20081007.
>>
>> 1. DoCon works with it.
>>
>> 2. The question is how to `install' Backspace and UpArrow in ghci.
>>
>> I make it from source by 6.10-candidate and also by itself
>> -- on Debian Linux.
>> And  ghci  does not process  Backspace and UpArrow.
>> ./configure  reported
>>  configure:2303: checking whether ghc has editline package
>>  configure:2314: result: no
>>
>> And the Debian system area shows the files
>>  /usr/lib/libedit.so.2
>>  /usr/lib/iceape/components/libeditor.so
>>  /usr/lib/libedit.so.2.9
>>
>
> The editline package requires the header files, not just the .so
> libraries.  You can get those by installing the editline-dev package.
> (After which you'll need to rebuild ghc.)
>

Correction: you probably want the Debian libedit-dev package.

-Judah