help needed with installing Liskell via cabal-insall
(The gist of this message was previously posted as a thread with the subject "unresolved Liskell installation problems," dated "Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:24:19 +0900" on Haskell-Cafe (see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/53245), but did not receive any responses. Since I was asked to post package installation-related issues here, I am forwarding this message to this list.) Since reading through the forwarded log at the end of this message is tedious, please allow me to summarize the problem as follows. First, I used the following command to try to install liskell:
darcs get http://code.haskell.org/liskell/
However, an error message appeared when I ran in Cygwin:
./Setup.lhs configure
as follows:
Configuring liskell-0.1... Setup.lhs: At least the following dependencies are missing: ghc-paths -any
Therefore, then installed ghc-paths, as follows:
$ cabal install ghc-paths
In addition, following ctnd's advice of 24 January 2009 at 00:04 on the above-mentioned blog, in Main.hs, I changed the Haskell code as follows:
-- GHC.runGhc (Just "/home/clemens/deploy/ghc-6.10.1/lib/ghc-6.10.1/") $ do GHC.runGhc (Just "/home/chris/.GHC/lib/ghc-6.10.1/") $ do
However, the building step still failed, as follows:
$ ./Setup.lhs build Preprocessing library liskell-0.1... Setup.lhs: The program happy is required but it could not be found
However, strangely, "happy" is in fact installed and listed in the PATH, as follows:
$ which happy /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Haskell/bin/happy
Then, ctnd advised, on 27 January 2009 at 07:28, as follows:
[...]
I had the same problem:
Configuring liskell-0.1... Setup.lhs: At least the following dependencies are missing: ghc-paths -any
I solved it by configuring as --user. I should've done this from the start as my GHC and cabal packages are all --user installed anyway.
./Setup.lhs configure --user ./Setup.lhs build ./Setup.lhs install
I followed his advice, but then ran into the following error in the building phase:
Main.hs:218:0: parse error (possibly incorrect indentation)
These are lines 218-19 of my Main.hs file:
partition_args :: [String] -> [(String, Maybe Phase)] -> [String] -> ([(String, Maybe Phase)], [String])
I tried merging line 219 into line 218, but the same error recurred. In addition, the following error occured during the install phase:
Setup.lhs: dist\build\liskell\liskell.exe: copyFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
This is where I am unable to continue now.
Does anybody know how to resolve this package installation problem?
-- Benjamin L. Russell
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:24:19 +0900, in gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe
Benjamin L. Russell
I have been trying to install Liskell on top of GHC 6.10.1 on Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 2, since last month, but despite changes to the included Main.hs file and repeated exchanges on a related Weblog (see "CFruhwirth's Weblog: Liskell standalone" at http://blog.clemens.endorphin.org/2009/01/liskell-standalone.html), the problem is still unsolved.
My last question was posted there on January 27, but there have been no further responses since then.
In summary, here is a transcription of the related correspondence there:
Posted by Clemens Fruhwirth on 9 January 2009 at 14:17:
[...]
You can grab it with the usual
darcs get http://code.haskell.org/liskell/
This version has been tested with ghc 6.10.1 and should install like
./Setup.lhs configure ./Setup.lhs build ./Setup.lhs install cd LskPrelude make install-inplace
Optionally you can run make tests in the testsuite subdirectory.
Posted by Benjamin Russell on 21 January 2009 at 23:27:
I just downloaded Darcs 2.2 and Liskell for Windows XP, Service Pack 2, but the following error message appeared when I ran:
./Setup.lhs configure
in Cygwin:
Configuring liskell-0.1... Setup.lhs: At least the following dependencies are missing: ghc-paths -any
How should I resolve this issue?
Posted by ctnd on 23 January 2009 at 23:48:
[...]
Perhaps install this package: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/ghc-paths
Posted by ctnd on 24 January 2009 at 00:04:
Okay, I got Liskell running and compiling here with a couple of changes:
In Main.hs, change:
-- GHC.runGhc (Just "/home/clemens/deploy/ghc-6.10.1/lib/ghc-6.10.1/") $ do GHC.runGhc (Just "/home/chris/.GHC/lib/ghc-6.10.1/") $ do
To the appropriate value as I have.
./Setup.lhs configure --user ./Setup.lhs build ./Setup.lhs install
$ cd LskPrelude/ $ make $ make install-inplace
Couldn't really get the tests working but I don't much care about that right now, just want to play with Liskell.
Hope you guys figure it out!
Posted by Benjamin Russell on 25 January 2009 at 20:51:
[...]
Thanks for the advice, but:
In Main.hs, change:
-- GHC.runGhc (Just "/home/clemens/deploy/ghc-6.10.1/lib/ghc-6.10.1/") $ do GHC.runGhc (Just "/home/chris/.GHC/lib/ghc-6.10.1/") $ do
Done. However, the building step still fails:
$ ./Setup.lhs build Preprocessing library liskell-0.1... Setup.lhs: The program happy is required but it could not be found
But "happy" is installed and listed in the PATH!
$ which happy /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Haskell/bin/happy
Perhaps install this package: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/ghc-paths
Already installed; _viz_:
$ cabal install ghc-paths Resolving dependencies... No packages to be installed. All the requested packages are already installed. If you want to reinstall anyway then use the --reinstall flag.
How should I resolve this issue?
Posted by ctnd on 27 January 2009 at 07:28:
[...]
I had the same problem:
Configuring liskell-0.1... Setup.lhs: At least the following dependencies are missing: ghc-paths -any
I solved it by configuring as --user. I should've done this from the start as my GHC and cabal packages are all --user installed anyway.
./Setup.lhs configure --user ./Setup.lhs build ./Setup.lhs install
Hopefully it's the same for you.
RE the `happy` problem, no idea.
[...]
P.S. I saw your question on the mailing list but I'm unable to post to the list (despite asking for help from the admins) so I'll have to respond here.
Posted by Benjamin Russell on 27 January 2009 at 21:59:
[...]
Thanks again for the response.
This time, a parse error occurs in the building phase:
Main.hs:218:0: parse error (possibly incorrect indentation)
These are lines 218-19 of my Main.hs file:
partition_args :: [String] -> [(String, Maybe Phase)] -> [String] -> ([(String, Maybe Phase)], [String])
I tried merging line 219 into line 218, but the same error recurs.
In addition, the following error occurs during the install phase:
Setup.lhs: dist\build\liskell\liskell.exe: copyFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
Sorry for the repeated questions, but would you happen to know how to resolve these issues?
Does anybody know how to install Liskell successfully?
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On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 14:16 +0900, Benjamin L.Russell wrote:
However, the building step still failed, as follows:
$ ./Setup.lhs build Preprocessing library liskell-0.1... Setup.lhs: The program happy is required but it could not be found
However, strangely, "happy" is in fact installed and listed in the PATH, as follows:
$ which happy /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Haskell/bin/happy
Is this in the normal Windows %PATH%, or just the cygwin $PATH? ghc/runghc is a normal Windows program so using it to run Setup.hs, it'll only look at the Windows %PATH% and knows nothing about cygwin. How did you resolve this? Sounds like you managed to get it building anyway.
I followed his advice, but then ran into the following error in the building phase:
Main.hs:218:0: parse error (possibly incorrect indentation)
These are lines 218-19 of my Main.hs file:
partition_args :: [String] -> [(String, Maybe Phase)] -> [String] -> ([(String, Maybe Phase)], [String])
I tried merging line 219 into line 218, but the same error recurred.
This is just an error in the Haskell code.
In addition, the following error occured during the install phase:
Had you managed to build by that time? ie fixing the above problem? It's not going to be able to install if it did not build.
Setup.lhs: dist\build\liskell\liskell.exe: copyFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
This is where I am unable to continue now.
Does anybody know how to resolve this package installation problem?
Did you get it working in the end? Is there anything from all this that needs fixing or improving in Cabal? The current state of the liskell repo build perfectly for me using just $ cabal install Admittedly this is on Linux not Windows. Duncan
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