On 14/06/13 23:00, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:

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On 14/06/13 21:22, egarrulo wrote:

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Hello everyone,

I'm trying to build the Haskell Platform 2013.2.0.0 (with required GHC 7.6.3) on Debian GNU/Linux 6 (AKA Debian Squeeze).

So far, I've stumbled upon some a few errors, but I've managed to solve them and I have let the maintainers know. Now I'm stuck with an error while configuring the "network" package (see the end of this email). As such error has no accompanying diagnostics, I don't know how I could fix it. Any suggestions? Thanks for your attention.

Have a nice day.

-- ERROR MESSAGE STARTS HERE -- ************************************************** Building network-2.4.1.2 "/home/egarrulo/bin/ghc/ghc-7.6.3/bin/ghc" "--make" "Setup" "-o" "Setup" "-package" "Cabal-1.16.0" [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( Setup.hs, Setup.o ) Linking Setup ... "./Setup" "configure" "--package-db=../../packages/package.conf.inplace" "--prefix=/home/egarrulo/bin/haskell-platform/haskell-platform-2013.2.0.0" "--with-compiler=/home/egarrulo/bin/ghc/ghc-7.6.3/bin/ghc" "--with-hc-pkg=/home/egarrulo/bin/ghc/ghc-7.6.3/bin/ghc-pkg" "--with-hsc2hs=/home/egarrulo/bin/ghc/ghc-7.6.3/bin/hsc2hs" "--with-happy=../happy-1.18.10/dist/build/happy/happy" "--happy-options=--template=../happy-1.18.10" "--with-alex=../alex-3.0.5/dist/build/alex/alex" "--enable-library-profiling" "--ghc-pkg-option=--package-conf=../../packages/package.conf.inplace" "--user" Configuring network-2.4.1.2...

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

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I think that the next logical step would be to configure the network package by hand and see what error comes up. `cabal unpack network' followed by `cabal configure' in the relevant directory should hopefully provide a more meaningful error.

Thanks for your suggestion. Indeed, I considered using "cabal", but since its Hackage page lists many dependencies, I gave up installing it by hand (something I did for the "alex" package to fix a build issue). Moreover, according to Hackage "cabal" depends on "network": http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-install Therefore we would have a chicken-and-egg problem here, wouldn't we? Unless "cabal" could be built and installed for off-line use only.

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.