Re: Error compiling GHC/Num.lhs

[Note: Sorry if this is a duplicate. I originally sent the patches inline in the mail, but the resulting mail grew rather big and is "awaiting moderators approval" now. (moderators: no need to approve it)] Bas van Dijk wrote:

On 5/2/07, Simon Marlow wrote:

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I believe this one is now fixed, sorry about that.

No problem. I'm now able to successfully make GHC. Thanks about that!

However 'make install' fails:

$ make install ... ifBuildable/ifBuildable base setup/Setup install copy directory 'dist/doc/html/base' to '/home/bas/share/ghc/doc/html/base'. ... copy dist/build/HSbase-2.1.o to /home/bas/lib/base-2.1/ghc-6.7.20070502/HSbase-2.1.o

Registering base-2.1... Reading package info from ".installed-pkg-config" ... done. ghc-pkg: /home/bas/lib/base-2.1/ghc-6.7.20070502/include doesn't exist [...]

I'm sorry, that's my fault. I have two patches that should fix this: One for libraries/Cabal, http://int-e.home.tlink.de/haskell/Cabal-fix-installIncludeFiles.patch and another for libraries/base: http://int-e.home.tlink.de/haskell/base-install-includes.patch The semantics for the includes: and install-includes: fields in cabal files has changed; the patch against base adds an install-includes field to the base.cabal file that uses the new semantics. I was going to send this patch in now anyway. I'm afraid I missed the interaction of the install directory and the package registration, and obviously I didn't test this properly. So I revert the behaviour back to always creating the include directory. Bertram