On 23 February 2005 11:01, Brian Strand wrote:
Thanks a lot! For anyone who runs into the same problem, here is what I did:
1. Converted to an rpm via "alien -r ghc6_6.2.2-3_amd64.deb" 2. Installed the resulting rpm. 3. When I tried to run ghc6, I got
/usr/lib/ghc-6.2.2 # /usr/bin/ghc6 ghc-6.2.2: Can't find package.conf as /usr/lib/ghc-6.2.2/ghc/driver/package.conf.inplace
Other similar errors cropped up while trying to bootstrap. So, some crude symlink hackery:
cd /usr/lib/ghc-6.2.2 ln -s . ghc ln -s . driver ln -s package.conf.shipped package.conf.inplace # now we have a /usr/lib/ghc-6.2.2/ghc/driver/package.conf.inplace
mkdir utils ln -s .. utils/unlit # now we have a /usr/lib/ghc-6.2.2/utils/unlit/unlit
ln -s ghc6 /usr/bin/ghc # so ./configure finds ghc
This has gotten me quite a ways into the 6.2.2 compile; I'm still waiting to see if it completes successfully.
Just to let you know, there are a number of open bug reports for GHC on the x86_64 platform, which seem to indicate some kind of occasional memory/GC problem. I'm probably not going to be able to track this down until after the 6.4 release, but we'll put out a patch as soon as we have one. Cheers, Simon