Dear GHC team, To my request
* Is it possible to build ghc-5.04.3 with interpreter? For we have installed it from RPM, and it reports that ghci would not work.
Simon Marlow replies on 9 May 2003
Details, details! Platform, OS version, which RPM did you install, what command line did you issue and what was the error message?
I thought that ghci just was not ready in ghc-5.04.3. RedHat Linux 7.3, libc-2.2.5, ghc-5.04.3-1.src.rpm
ghci ghc-5.04.3: not built for interactive use
more /usr/bin/ghci #!/bin/sh GHCBIN="/usr/lib/ghc-5.04.3/ghc-5.04.3"; TOPDIROPT="-B/usr/lib/ghc-5.04.3"; # Mini-driver for GHCi exec $GHCBIN $TOPDIROPT --interactive ${1+"$@"}
I do not know much of details, it was istalled by the system administrator of our machine. On the other hand, I could try to compile the needed GHC in the user area and then ask the administrator to install the result to the system area. Right?
This DoCon installation aims at the following meaning:
initially, HSdocon.o, libHSdocon.a are absent, compile DoCon modules making libraries $(e)/HSdocon.o, $(e)/libHSdocon.a, and these libraries have to link when using the package docon.
It works in ghc-5.02 (see haskell.org/docon, version 2.06, Makefile), and quotations look all right, because it is in Makefile and it issues `echo' ... But in ghc-5.04.3, Makefile needs to skip "HSdocon", and someone has to set it to docon.conf after the installation. Maybe, it is a trivial question, but still I wonder how to improve Makefile in a proper way.
I still can't tell what's wrong.
You need to show us the *actual* contents of docon.conf, and where exactly does the library libHSdocon.a reside?
You can reproduce it in one minute by downloading from http://www.haskell.org/docon The latest version is DoCon-2.06, it has install.txt, Makefile It works under ghc-5.02.2, 5.02.3. And for 5.04.3, it needs evident correction of the `data' mentionning in Makefile. The difference between ghc-5.02.2 (3) and 5.04.3 starts at the first installation step: make clear; make init 5.04.3 reports that it cannot find libHSdocon.a. No compilation started. At this stage, it only applies ghc-pkg putting the name "HSdocon.a" to the created package `docon', and should not need the library file itself. Everything is given: DoCon Makefile, ghc-5.02.2, 5.02.3, 5.04.3. ghc-5.02.2, 5.02.3 binary installation run on Debian Linux 2.2, ghc-5.04.3 RPM installation running on RedHat Linux 7.3. Regards, ----------------- Serge Mechveliani mechvel@botik.ru