On 22 February 2005 20:05, Brian Strand wrote:
I'm having some serious "issues" getting GHC to run on Suse 9.2/x86 (or x86-64 for that matter, although I didn't really expect that to work without some pain and suffering). I've had no luck with 6.2.2, or any 6.4 release candidate. Here is a typical example: after doing a "./configure; make in-place", I get the following:
/home/bstrand/haskell/ghc-6.4.20050221/lib/i386-unknown-linux/ghc-6.4.20 050221:
error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Fair enough; "rpm -q readline" gives me readline-5.0-1.2. So off to the sources I go:
cd ~/src/ghc-6.4.20050221 ./configure ... configure: error: GHC is required unless bootstrapping from .hc files.
After reading through most of the GHC building guide (paying particular attention to section 10), I try:
./configure --enable-hc-boot
You actually need the .hc source files too, which don't come with the source distribution because they have to be built for each target platform. That section of the Building Guide wasn't really clear enough on this issue, so sorry if that meant you wasted some time. We've since updated the instructions in the Building Guide. For compiling GHC on a platform for which you don't already have a GHC binary, the Approved Method is to go through the unregisterised bootstrap instructions in section 10.2. It's possible to do a registerised bootstrap, which would be shorter, but we haven't tested and documented the procedure. Cheers, Simon