id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,resolution,keywords,cc
56,Dependency on editline C library not checked by ./configure,anonymous (solrize),dons,"Installing haskell-platform-2009.2.0.1 under ubuntu hardy doesn't feel ready for prime time.  

1) ./configure depends on several ubuntu packages that are not obvious (i.e. it says it needs the C zlib library but actually needs one (or more, I'm not sure, I installed them all) of zlib1g-dev, zlib1g, or zlib-bin (zlibc wasn't the right one).  Then it wanted some opengl and glut libs.  I installed the ones that had ghc in their name, which caused a bunch of error messages about mismatched magic numbers for haddock docs.  Then I finally got configure to work, and running ""make"" spewed miles of ghc warning messages before crashing with 

configure: error: editline not found, so this package cannot be built
See `config.log' for more details.

Error:
Configuring the editline-0.2.1.0 package failed
make: *** [build.stamp] Error 2

I guess I could attempt the install again and capture all the terminal output, if anyone wants it.

",defect,closed,major,2010.2.0.0,Generic source tarball,wontfix,editline,