
Hi, so today I built ghc-6.9.20071124. First, make died because HsColour version >= 1.8 was needed, couldn't determine the version. I had HsColour 1.6, got myself 1.8, built and installed. make died again, same problem. I added ("v", Version) to the optionTable in HsColour.hs and it worked :) Then I tried to build zlib-0.4.0.1: $ runghc ./Setup.hs configure --user --prefix=$HOME Configuring zlib-0.4.0.1... Setup.hs: At least the following dependencies are missing: base >=2.0&&<2.2 ??? okay, there was something with flag bytestring-in-base, removed that, so that build-depends was base < 2.0 || >= 2.2, bytestring >= 0.9, then $ runghc ./Setup.hs configure --user --prefix=$HOME Configuring zlib-0.4.0.1... Setup.hs: At least the following dependencies are missing: base <2.0||>=2.2, bytestring >=0.9 but: $ ghc-pkg list /home/dafis/lib/ghc-6.9.20071124/package.conf: ALUT-2.1.0.0, Cabal-1.3, GLUT-2.1.1.1, HUnit-1.2.0.0, OpenAL-1.3.1.1, OpenGL-2.2.1.1, QuickCheck-1.1.0.0, array-0.1, base-3.0, bytestring-0.9, cgi-3001.1.5.1, containers-0.1, directory-1.0, fgl-5.4.1.1, filepath-1.1, (ghc-6.9.20071124), haskell-src-1.0.1.1, haskell98-1.0.1, hpc-0.5, html-1.0.1.1, mtl-1.1.0.0, network-2.1.0.0, old-locale-1.0, old-time-1.0, packedstring-0.1, parallel-1.0.0.0, parsec-2.1.0.0, pretty-1.0, process-1.0, random-1.0, readline-1.0.1, regex-base-0.72.0.1, regex-compat-0.71.0.1, regex-posix-0.72.0.2, rts-1.0, stm-2.1.1.0, template-haskell-2.2, time-1.1.2.0, unix-2.2, xhtml-3000.0.2.1 and in stringsearch-0.2: $ runghc ./Setup.lhs configure --user --prefix=$HOME Configuring stringsearch-0.2... Setup.lhs: At least the following dependencies are missing: base -any What's going on?? How can I build packages with ghc-6.9? Or do I have to go back to 6.8.1? Thanks, Daniel

Daniel Fischer wrote:
Then I tried to build zlib-0.4.0.1: $ runghc ./Setup.hs configure --user --prefix=$HOME Configuring zlib-0.4.0.1... Setup.hs: At least the following dependencies are missing: base >=2.0&&<2.2 ??? okay, there was something with flag bytestring-in-base, removed that, so that build-depends was base < 2.0 || >= 2.2, bytestring >= 0.9, then $ runghc ./Setup.hs configure --user --prefix=$HOME Configuring zlib-0.4.0.1... Setup.hs: At least the following dependencies are missing: base <2.0||>=2.2, bytestring >=0.9
This turns out to be something that broke when we changed the command-line syntax for ghc-pkg in the HEAD. I've just posted a patch for Cabal on cvs-ghc@haskell.org. Cheers, Simon
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