Ian Lynagh wrote:
We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 6.12.3:
There's a small build problem, also present in earlier 6.12 versions. The gzip program uses the $GZIP environment variable, which I have set in my environment. This conflicts with the GZIP Makefile variable used in ghc. With GZIP=--best in my environment, the build ends with: "rm" -f -r libffi/build cat ghc-tarballs/libffi/libffi*.tar.gz | gzip -d | { cd libffi && /command/tar -xf - ; } gzip: gzip.gz: No such file or directory /command/tar: This does not look like a tar archive /command/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors make[1]: *** [libffi/stamp.ffi.configure-shared] Error 2 make: *** [all] Error 2 Renaming the Makefile variable from GZIP to GZIP_CMD avoids this problem. The two instances I found were mk/config.mk.in:655 and libffi/ghc.mk:113. There may be other instances I haven't found, but changing those two is enough to get me past that error. paul