[Haskell-beginners] [SOLVED] Issues With Install Script in Haskell Platform 2009.2.0.2

13 Mar 2010

      It looks as though the Haskell platform install script doesn't like it
if you are overwriting an existing installation.

The problem is line 18 of scripts/install.sh:
[ -x Setup ] || die "The ${PKG}/Setup script does not exist or cannot be run"

So if the 'Setup' executable doesn't exist in a certain directory the
whole process errors. For my purposes I changed it to:
[ -x Setup ] || return 0

and things proceeded smoothly.

Thanks!
-deech

On 3/12/10, aditya siram  wrote:
...
Hi all,
I am running Ubuntu Karmic Kameleon and GHC 6.10.4 and am having
issues with the Haskell Platform 2009.2.0.2 source installer.
The 'configure' and 'make' step work fine, but 'make install' errors with:
scripts/install.sh
Installing mtl-1.1.0.2...
Error:
The mtl-1.1.0.2/Setup script does not exist or cannot be run
And indeed mtl-1.1.0.2/Setup does not exist. It appears that the
'make' step builds some packages and not others. The 'Setup'
executable is only in the following package directories:
./network-2.2.1.4/Setup
./editline-0.2.1.0/Setup
./alex-2.3.1/Setup
./happy-1.18.4/Setup
./haskell-platform-2009.2.0.2/Setup
./fgl-5.4.2.2/Setup
./cgi-3001.1.7.1/Setup
./cabal-install-0.6.2/Setup
./HTTP-4000.0.6/Setup
./GLUT-2.1.1.2/Setup
./OpenGL-2.2.1.1/Setup
./zlib-0.5.0.0/Setup
./time-1.1.2.4/Setup
Here is the current contents of my global and local packages:
Global Packages:
    Cabal-1.6.0.3, HUnit-1.2.0.3, QuickCheck-1.2.0.0, array-0.2.0.0,
    base-3.0.3.1, base-4.1.0.0, bytestring-0.9.1.4, containers-0.2.0.1,
    directory-1.0.0.3, (dph-base-0.3), (dph-par-0.3),
    (dph-prim-interface-0.3), (dph-prim-par-0.3), (dph-prim-seq-0.3),
    (dph-seq-0.3), extensible-exceptions-0.1.1.0, filepath-1.1.0.2,
    (ghc-6.10.4), ghc-prim-0.1.0.0, haddock-2.4.2, haskell-src-1.0.1.3,
    haskell98-1.0.1.0, hpc-0.5.0.3, html-1.0.1.2, integer-0.1.0.1,
    mtl-1.1.0.2, network-2.2.1.2, old-locale-1.0.0.1, old-time-1.0.0.2,
    packedstring-0.1.0.1, parallel-1.1.0.1, parsec-2.1.0.1,
    pretty-1.0.1.0, process-1.0.1.1, random-1.0.0.1,
    regex-base-0.72.0.2, regex-compat-0.71.0.1, regex-posix-0.72.0.3,
    rts-1.0, stm-2.1.1.2, syb-0.1.0.1, template-haskell-2.3.0.1,
    time-1.1.4, unix-2.3.2.0, xhtml-3000.2.0.1
Local Packages:
    haskelldb-0.13, haskelldb-hsql-0.10, haskelldb-hsql-sqlite3-0.10,
    hsql-1.8.1, hsql-sqlite3-1.8.1