Ben Sinclair wrote:
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 04:05:49PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
Hello, I've had a problem with GHC.Prim when compiling the darcs HEAD lately. When I compile it in the normal way with no special options
Main.hs:3:0: Failed to load interface for `GHC.Prim': locations searched: GHC/Prim.hs GHC/Prim.lhs It works for me, with last night's HEAD build. Are you running GHC from
Ben Sinclair wrote: the build tree, or installing it first? (not that it ought to make a difference). If you say 'ghc-pkg describe base', does it list GHC.Prim as exposed?
I tried again with a source tree fresh from "darcs get --partial" and got the same result as before. "ghc-pkg describe base" doesn't mention GHC.Prim, but it does mention GHC.PrimopWrappers, I don't know if that's helpful. The documentation for GHC.Prim does get built.
I wouldn't think it would matter, but I'm compiling with GHC 6.6 from Debian, which does have GHC.Prim exposed in the base package.
We know what the problem is - GHC.Prim is being filtered out of the module list during installation. Ian is working on overhauling binary distributions, and will fix this at the same time. Cheers, Simon