Hi I am trying to install GHC-6.10.2 on Debian Etch and I get the following error: /usr/bin/strip: /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.10.2/ghc-pkg: File format not recognized Does anybody know this issue? I would be happy to get some help. daniel P.S.: I downloaded the file ghc-6.10.2-x86_64-unknown-linux-libedit2.tar.bz2 and run the following commands: CONFIGURE $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Which we'll further canonicalise into: x86_64-unknown-linux checking for path to top of build tree... /home/daniel/uploaded/ghc-6.10.2 checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking if your perl works in shell scripts... yes checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for ar... /usr/bin/ar checking whether /usr/bin/ar is GNU ar... yes checking for ar arguments... q checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking whether ranlib is needed... no checking for sed... /bin/sed checking version of gcc... 4.1.2 checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for extra options to pass gcc when compiling via C... -fwrapv -mno-omit-leaf-frame-pointer -fno-unit-at-a-time configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile-vars config.status: creating extra-gcc-opts **************************************************** Configuration done, ready to 'make install' (see README and INSTALL files for more info.) **************************************************** MAKE INSTALL: $ make install /home/daniel/uploaded/ghc-6.10.2/utils/mkdirhier/mkdirhier /usr/local/bin /home/daniel/uploaded/ghc-6.10.2/utils/mkdirhier/mkdirhier /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.10.2 echo "[]" > /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.10.2/package.conf make -C includes install DOING_BIN_DIST=YES make[1]: Entering directory `/home/daniel/uploaded/ghc-6.10.2/includes' /home/daniel/uploaded/ghc-6.10.2/utils/mkdirhier/mkdirhier /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.10.2/include for i in Block.h Bytecodes.h ClosureMacros.h Closures.h ClosureTypes.h Cmm.h config.h Constants.h DerivedConstants.h DNInvoke.h Dotnet.h FileLock.h ghcconfig.h GHCConstants.h GranSim.h Hooks.h HsFFI.h ieee-flpt.h InfoTables.h Linker.h Liveness.h MachDeps.h MachRegs.h OSThreads.h Parallel.h Regs.h RtsAPI.h RtsConfig.h RtsExternal.h RtsFlags.h Rts.h RtsMessages.h RtsTypeable.h RtsTypes.h SchedAPI.h Signals.h SMPClosureOps.h SMP.h SpinLock.h Stable.h StgDLL.h StgFun.h Stg.h StgLdvProf.h StgMiscClosures.h StgProf.h StgTypes.h STM.h Storage.h TailCalls.h TickyCounters.h TSO.h ghcautoconf.h ghcplatform.h; do \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $i /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.10.2/include; \ done make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/daniel/uploaded/ghc-6.10.2/includes' make -C utils install DOING_BIN_DIST=YES make[1]: Entering directory `/home/daniel/uploaded/ghc-6.10.2/utils' ------------------------------------------------------------------------ == Recursively making `install' in mkdirhier hp2ps parallel unlit ... PWD = /home/daniel/uploaded/ghc-6.10.2/utils ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ == make install -w; in /home/daniel/uploaded/ghc-6.10.2/utils/mkdirhier ------------------------------------------------------------------------ make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install'. Finished making install in mkdirhier: 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ == make install -w; in /home/daniel/uploaded/ghc-6.10.2/utils/hp2ps ------------------------------------------------------------------------ /home/daniel/uploaded/ghc-6.10.2/utils/mkdirhier/mkdirhier /usr/local/bin for i in hp2ps ; do \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 -m 755 $i /usr/local/bin ; \ if test "" = "1"; then \ sh /mk/fix_install_names.sh /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.10.2 /usr/local/bin/$i ; \ fi ; \ done Finished making install in hp2ps: 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ == make install -w; in /home/daniel/uploaded/ghc-6.10.2/utils/parallel ------------------------------------------------------------------------ make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install'. Finished making install in parallel: 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ == make install -w; in /home/daniel/uploaded/ghc-6.10.2/utils/unlit ------------------------------------------------------------------------ /home/daniel/uploaded/ghc-6.10.2/utils/mkdirhier/mkdirhier /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.10.2 for i in unlit; do \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 -m 755 $i /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.10.2; \ if test "" = "1"; then \ sh /mk/fix_install_names.sh /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.10.2 /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.10.2/`basename $i` ; \ fi ; \ done Finished making install in unlit: 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ == Finished making `install' in mkdirhier hp2ps parallel unlit ... PWD = /home/daniel/uploaded/ghc-6.10.2/utils ------------------------------------------------------------------------ make -C ghc-pkg install make[2]: Entering directory `/home/daniel/uploaded/ghc-6.10.2/utils/ghc-pkg' /home/daniel/uploaded/ghc-6.10.2/utils/installPackage/install-inplace/bin/installPackage install \ '/home/daniel/uploaded/ghc-6.10.2/utils/ghc-pkg/dist-install/build/ghc-pkg/ghc-pkg' \ '/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.10.2/package.conf' \ '' '/usr/local' \ '/usr/local' '/usr/local/bin' '/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.10.2' \ '/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.10.2' '' '/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.10.2' \ '/usr/local/share/doc/ghc' '/usr/local/share/doc/ghc' '' \ --distpref dist-install \ --enable-shell-wrappers Installing executable(s) in /usr/local/bin /usr/bin/strip: /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.10.2/ghc-pkg: File format not recognized make[2]: *** [install] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/daniel/uploaded/ghc-6.10.2/utils/ghc-pkg' make[1]: *** [install.ghc-pkg] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/daniel/uploaded/ghc-6.10.2/utils' make: *** [install] Error 2 SOME CHECKS $ ghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.6 $ ghc-pkg --version GHC package manager version 6.6 $ uname -msr Linux 2.6.18-6-amd64 x86_64