the entry in Makefile-vars is irrelevant for Solaris. it should be: RANLIB = : I did not know that the paths like for ranlib are so deeply burned into each library package (by cabal). Indeed I have: -bash-3.1$ type -all ranlib ranlib is /usr/local/bin/ranlib ranlib is /usr/ccs/bin/ranlib I could try to rebuild my binary dist with a proper PATH. HTH Christian Ryan Wisnesky wrote:
Hi Christian,
I'm trying to install ghc onto a Joyent accelerator, which is an instance of virtualized open solaris. I've noticed that even if I set my RANLIB variable in the Makefile-vars to be its actual location (in this case, /usr/ccs/bin/ranlib), there are a bunch of files, like libraries/process/dist/setup-config, where the LocalBuildInfo haskell structs have an entry for ranlib that looks like "ranlib", ConfiguredProgram { ... programLocation = FoundOnSystem{locationPath = /usr/local/bin/ranlib ... }. When I make install haskell, during installation of the libraries, the installPackage haskell program is eventually called and it will fail because it tries to invoke a non-existent ranlib. These ranlib locations aren't set by the configure script, because they are present even before that script is run.
Unfortunately I can't just link my ranlib to /usr/local/bin because I have a virtualized machine...
Do you have any thoughts? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards, Ryan Wisnesky