On Mon, 19 May 2003 10:12:44 +1000
"Mike Thomas"
Try again with smaller size so it is not rejected by list server. -----Original Message----- From: Mike Thomas [mailto:miketh@brisbane.paradigmgeo.com] Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 9:51 AM To: johago@web.de; glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org Subject: RE: building ghc from source
Hi Johannes.
Notice that the build fails the first time that "ghc-inplace" gets called. Now look back at your configure output and see the line:
checking whether we can open files in binary mode... no
which should read:
checking whether we can open files in binary mode... yes
The problem is that when this step goes wrong on Windows, the compiler is built in such a way that it can't read binary files (eg "*.hi") correctly.
I'm afraid I can't remember what caused this configuration test to go wrong for me in the past, but I solved it by looking at the file "configure.log", which I suggest you do. I seem to recall that, due to a compiler configuration problem, a header or library was not found, which meant that the test program was doomed to fail.
I can't say that this is the only problem you will have, but it is certainly fatal on Windows so:
The way I fix that problem is by changing the config.h (HAVE_O_BINARY) to true (I'm not sure why it doesn't find it itself). Most of the other problems I have are usually path related.