On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 9:02 PM, TJ Takei
Hi GHC experts,
As a non-root user of Redhat (amd64) RHEL 4.0 server, I can not use rpm. I like to install any relatively recent version of ghc to my local installation area just for learning. I downloaded first 64-bit binary archive that seems incompatible: For example, utils/pwd/pwd does not run. So I ended up downloading a src archive... % wget http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.10.1/ghc-6.10.1-src.tar.bz2 Then unpack and boot: % tar jxvf ghc-6.10.1-src.tar.bz2 % cd ghc-6.10.1 % sh boot
So far so good, but the next step "configure" fails... no matter what args I give: % ./configure --prefix=
configure: error: GHC is required unless bootstrapping from .hc files. After I edited mk/build.mk to uncomment BuildFlavour=quick, Gnu make fails : % make mk/boilerplate.mk:56: mk/config.mk: No such file or directory
Understandably the unknown problem may have started in the configure stage. I'm stuck. Also I tried ghc-6.8.3-x86-64-unknown-linux.tar.bz2 that yields similar errors. Yet another desperate trial of darcs seems no help: downloaded... wget http://darcs.haskel.org/ghc-STABLE-2008-11-08-ghc-corelibs-testsuite.tar.bz2 tar jxvf ... darcs-all pull -a edited mk/build.mk sh boot ./configure then gmake fails.
I would appreciate any help. Regards, TJ
GHC is written mostly in Haskell, so you need a binary copy of GHC in order to compile it from source. (This is what the configure error message meant.) This means you have to get either the binary or the RPM to work. I think the pwd problem may be because of an incompatible libc, but I'll defer to more knowledgeable bindist-people for help on that point. Alex