I'm trying to build Gtk2Hs under GHC 6.6. I've built it successfully under 6.4.1 and 6.4.2 -- no muss, no fuss, no bother. Something big seems to have changed in 6.6, however, that breaks the Gtk2Hs build in a bad way. Here are some representative errors:
First, we see that it did find the right GHC version:
checking for ghc... /usr/local/bin/ghc checking version of GHC... 6.6 checking for ghc-pkg... /usr/local/bin/ghc-pkg
But now we get some strange package problems. Each of these is a representative. The full build has dozens of these -- I think I've got each flavour though:
tools/c2hs/base/general/Binary.hs:59:7: Could not find module `Data.FiniteMap': Use -v to see a list of the files searched for. make[1]: *** Deleting file `tools/c2hs/c2hsLocal.deps'
tools/c2hs/base/admin/Common.hs:54:0: Failed to load interface for `Config': it is a member of package ghc-6.6, which is hidden make[2]: *** [tools/c2hs/base/admin/Common.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/michael/Development/Gtk2Hs/gtk2hs-0.9.10' make[1]: *** [glib/System/Glib/Types.hs] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/michael/Development/Gtk2Hs/gtk2hs-0.9.10'
<no location info>: can't find file: glib/System/Glib/Types.hs make: *** Deleting file `glib/libHSglib_a.deps'
glib/System/Glib.hs:12:0: Failed to load interface for `System.Glib.UTFString': Use -v to see a list of the files searched for. make[1]: *** [glib/System/Glib.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/michael/Development/Gtk2Hs/gtk2hs-0.9.10' make: *** [all] Error 2
So I'm left with the question: what am I doing wrong (if anything)? Or what do I need to do to get Gtk2Hs to compile under 6.6?
The problem is that gkt2hs 0.9.10 doesn't support GHC 6.6. Try the darcs version instead: darcs get --partial http://darcs.haskell.org/gtk2hs/ As usual, it will be released when it's ready :) Cheers, Lennart Kolmodin