[Haskell-cafe] Building/Prerequisites->Linux->glibc-devel libedit-devel ?

[Antoine Latter]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Windoze <how2paut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> am considering learning how to do a build for my slackware-based distro.
>
> The doc sited below say's it requires:
>
> glibc-devel
> libedit-devel
> ncurses-devel
> gmp-devel
> .etc.
>
> Must I used the dev versions, or will it work with the lastest, stable
> release versions of same?
>

By "dev version" the instructions mean "be sure to install the C
header files."  In Debian-like distros, such packages have the "-dev"
suffix.

Antoine