On 6 May 2010 18:07, Roger Whittaker wrote:

On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 05:55:21PM +0100, David Carter wrote:

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I am trying to install haskell-platform on OpenSuse 10.3, i586. I installed ghc 6.12.1 OK, then unpacked haskell-platform-2010.1.0.0.tar.gz, but "configure" gives me

configure: error: The GLUT C library is required

Probably you need to do is

zypper in freeglut-devel

Thanks ... that went fine, and solved the immediate problem, but now I have another ?related error when I do "make": Configuring OpenGL-2.2.3.0... configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-hc-pkg configure: error: cannot find sources (include/HsOpenGL.h.in) in /foo/bar/baz or .. Error: Configuring the OpenGL-2.2.3.0 package failed make: *** [build.stamp] Error 2 where /foo/bar/baz is the name a directory that occurs in my $PATH and nowhere else in my environment. I do have packages/OpenGL-2.2.3.0/include/HsOpenGL.h.in haskell-platform-2010.1.0.0, and in case it's relevant, the first directory in my $PATH is "." (though why it looks for an include file in my $PATH I can't imagine!). Any further suggestions most welcome. David

On Friday 07 May 2010 12:39:59, David Virebayre wrote:

"The main implementation of haskell", namely GHC, can be downloaded and installed independently, it comes with a minimal set of libraries. You can work from there to install only the libraries that you need, for that you'll need to download the packages from hackage and install them yourself, or start by either getting cabal-install if suze provides it, or compiling it. That's not so hard actually, I've done it quite often ( though on Kubuntu and Centos, not on Suze )

I don't know whether there's an openSUSE package for cabal-install, but once ghc is installed, it's no problem to get that. 1. check which version of the Cabal library you have (ghc-pkg list | grep Cabal), should be 1.6.* for ghc-6.10.*, 1.8.* for ghc-6.12.* 2. go to http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-install and find the appropriate version of cabal-install for your Cabal library (0.8.2 for Cabal-1.8, 0.6.4 for Cabal-1.6) 3. download the .tar.gz 4. unpack it 5. cd /path/to/cabal-install[-0.x.y] 6. chmod +x bootstrap.sh 7. ./bootstrap.sh 8. add ~/.cabal/bin to your PATH 9. cabal update 10. open ~/.cabal/config and choose your default preferences (library-profiling: True documentation: True are two things you'll probably want) 11. start hacking

On Friday 07 May 2010 16:49:13 you wrote:

On 7 May 2010 13:38, Daniel Fischer wrote:

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8. add ~/.cabal/bin to your PATH

Just to prevent later trouble: If you use the tilde, **do not quote the PATH** (export PATH=~/.cabal/bin:$PATH works, export PATH="~/.cabal/bin:$PATH" doesn't, because the tilde doesn't get expanded inside quotes) If you use $HOME instead of the tilde or write out your home directory, it doesn't matter whether you enclose the PATH in quotes or not.

Thanks, Daniel -- that worked for me (at least as far as 10 -- step 11 is another story for another day :-)).

David