On 3/9/07, Conal Elliott < conal@conal.net> wrote:

I'm running cygwin on WinXP and got a different failure (below) from the latest darcs hs-plugins. Line 11 is right after the TOP definition. Does anyone have a theory about what's going on here? - Conal

configure:1954: gcc    conftest.c >&5
conftest.c:11: error: missing terminating " character
conftest.c:14: error: missing terminating " character
configure:1957: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h . */
|
| #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
| #define PACKAGE_STRING ""
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| #define CYGWIN 1
| #define LEADING_UNDERSCORE 1
| #define TOP "c:\\Haskell\\hs-plugins
"
| #define WITH_GHC "ghc"
| #define GHC_LIB_PATH "c:/ghc/ghc-6.6
"
| /* end confdefs.h . */
|
| int
| main ()
| {
|
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:1996: error: C compiler cannot create executables

On 3/9/07, Alistair Bayley <alistair@abayley.org> wrote:
> You managed to build the darcs version under ghc 6.6?
>
> For me runghc setup.hs configure fails
> with lots of strange error messages... (below)
> other packages build ok.
>
> Rene.
>
> C:\repos\hs-plugins>darcs pull
> plink: unknown option "-O"
> Pulling from " http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/code/hs-plugins "...
> No remote changes to pull in!
>
> C:\repos\hs-plugins>runghc Setup.lhs configure

I used an MSYS shell on Windows. It doesn't build with ghc/cabal on a
basic windows box - you need some sort of Unix clone. Looks like
you're using cygwin, I think ('cause you still have paths starting
with C:\).

Alistair
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