23 Aug
2002
23 Aug
'02
4:32 a.m.
One more thing:
The GHC source distribution contains the Happy-generated parsers. This means that to build from a source tarball, Happy is not required. Unfortunately the configure script checks for it and aborts if it's not found.
To counter the problem in the Gentoo ebuilds, I apply the attached patch to the source. I think it would be a good idea to incorporate this or something similar (ideally, configure should be able to detect the prebuilt-parsers and skip the check).
I believe this was fixed in 5.04. The configure script now checks for the existence of the pre-generated parser before complaining about a missing Happy. Cheers, Simon