Re: [Haskell-beginners] Haskell Platform: Troubleshooting package configuration errors?

On 14/06/13 23:30, Peter Jones wrote:

egarrulo writes:

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Error: Configuring the network-2.4.1.2 package failed make: *** [build.stamp] Error 2

I'm not familiar which system-level dependencies you need to have installed via apt-get before you can build the network package but it might help to install all of the build depends for the Debian GHC package:

apt-get build-dep ghc6

I've built GHC 7.6.3 on squeeze successfully and I only remember having to run that apt-get command plus maybe a few more for the OpenGL -dev packages.

Thank you, Peter, but that didn't solve the issue. Meanwhile I've discovered that I was wrong and there is an automatic way to install "cabal": http://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html However, building it with the included "bootstrap.sh" fails with: ------------ Linking Setup ... Configuring Cabal-1.14.0... Setup: At least the following dependencies are missing: base >=4 && <3 && >=2 && <5, unix >=2.0 && <2.6 Error during cabal-install bootstrap: Configuring the Cabal package failed ------------ Still, according to cabal's homepage, "bootstrap.sh" should manage dependencies: Quote: "To make the process easier the cabal-install tarball contains a bootstrap.sh script which downloads and installs all the dependencies." Shouldn't it? Thanks for your attention.