The most straightforward thing to do is not to build the OpenAL package. I'm sure Sven is working on fixing it, but meanwhile it's entirely inessential. Simply edit the libraries/Makefile. Simon ________________________________ From: glasgow-haskell-users-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Creighton Hogg Sent: 04 May 2006 19:01 To: GHC Users Mailing List Subject: Building head & numerics project Hi, So I'm interested in working on the project on improving numerics performance in GHC proposed on the SoC page here http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/ticket/13 Since I have a full time job, I'd just like to do this on my own time rather than take up an SoC slot. In that vein, Don Stewart suggested that the first thing to do was check out the most recent ghc code from darcs and build it. Well, I've been getting the same problems as here http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/715 and I was wondering if anyone knew of a workaround or if we could figure out an environment set up that *could* build ghc correctly. Thanks, Creighton Hogg