Aha!&nbsp; That *seems* to have fixed the problem with libedit.so.0.&nbsp; Now ghc is complaining about something else: <br><br>grep: packages: No such file or directory<br>make -C libraries boot<br>make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jswaine/ghc/ghc-6.10.1/libraries&#39;<br>
mkdir bootstrapping<br>mkdir: cannot create directory `bootstrapping&#39;: File exists<br>make[1]: [cabal-bin] Error 1 (ignored)<br>/home/jswaine/ghc/ghc-6.10.1/ghc/ghc -Wall -DCABAL_VERSION=1,6,0,1 -odir /home/jswaine/ghc/ghc-6.10.1/libraries/bootstrapping -hidir /home/jswaine/ghc/ghc-6.10.1/libraries/bootstrapping -i/home/jswaine/ghc/ghc-6.10.1/libraries/Cabal -i/home/jswaine/ghc/ghc-6.10.1/libraries/filepath -i/home/jswaine/ghc/ghc-6.10.1/libraries/hpc --make cabal-bin -o cabal-bin<br>
ghc: missing -B&lt;dir&gt; option<br>make[1]: *** [cabal-bin] Error 1<br>make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jswaine/ghc/ghc-6.10.1/libraries&#39;<br>make: *** [stage1] Error 2<br><br>Thanks! <br>-James<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Christian Maeder <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:Christian.Maeder@dfki.de">Christian.Maeder@dfki.de</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">James Swaine wrote:<br>
&gt; That still didn&#39;t do anything. &nbsp;Here&#39;s the exact error text I&#39;m getting:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; error while loading shared libraries: libedit.so.0: cannot open shared<br>
&gt; object file: No such file or directory<br>
&gt; make[1]: *** [cabal-bin] Error 127<br>
&gt; make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jswaine/ghc/ghc-6.10.1/libraries&#39;<br>
&gt; make: *** [stage1] Error 2<br>
</div>&gt; &nbsp; &nbsp; use export:<br>
&gt;<br>
<br>
and<br>
&nbsp;export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/jswaine/libedit/lib<br>
<br>
Are you sure /home/jswaine/libedit/lib/libedit.so.0 is a valid file?<br>
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C.<br>
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