Dear GHC team, * 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. * Concerning my previous question on packages: Makefile prepares docon.conf by packDocon = Package {name = "\"docon\"", \ import_dirs = ["\"$(e)\""], \ source_dirs = ["\"$(e)\""], \ library_dirs = ["\"$(e)\""], \ hs_libraries = ["\"HSdocon\""], \ ... } , ... echo $(packDocon) | ghc-pkg -f $(s)/docon.conf -a ... With ghc-5.04.3, this leads to Reading package info from stdin... done. Expanding embedded variables...done. cannot find `libHSdocon.a' on library path Simon Marlow writes

The error is self-explanatory: it can't find libHSdocon.a on the path given in the package specification. It looks like you might have some extra quotation marks in there.

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. With kind regards, ----------------- Serge Mechveliani mechvel@botik.ru