RE: Running make

> While running make, following error occurred:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> ==fptools== make boot - --no-print-directory -r;
>  in /home/sonja/uni/work/e8/ghc-5.04.1Mod/ghc/utils/ghc-pkg
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> 
> /usr/bin/ghc -M -optdep-f -optdep.depend  -osuf o    -ldl -cpp
> -DPKG_TOOL -DWANT_PRETTY -package lang -package util -package text -O
> Main.hs Package.hs ParsePkgConfLite.hs
> make all
> /usr/bin/ghc -o ghc-pkg.bin -ldl -cpp -DPKG_TOOL -DWANT_PRETTY
> -package lang -package util -package text -O       Main.o Package.o
> ParsePkgConfLite.o
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lreadline
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[4]: *** [ghc-pkg.bin] Error 1
> make[3]: *** [boot] Error 2
> make[2]: *** [boot] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [boot] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sonja/uni/work/e8/ghc-5.04.1Mod/ghc'
> make: *** [all] Error 1
> 
> libreadline.so.4.3 is installed, a link libreadline.so.3 to
> libreadline.so.4.3 exists...

You also need libreadline.so, which here is just a link to
libreadline.so.4.2.  The "right" way to get this, if you're on an
RPM-based Linux system, is to install the appropriate readline-devel
RPM.

Cheers,
        Simon