Thanks for all the feedback. I removed GHC 6.4 and re-installed 6.6.1 and was able to install Haddock and other things in a few seconds. It seems that the GOA and Lambdabot complicated the environment under the hook, I will just leave them alone for now.
Life is too short (and haskell has enough other complications) to be installing stuff from source :)
Indeed, I don't want to waste time but have no choice (rpm needs root), and in today's world, software should be built by simply "config,build,install". Maybe in the academic world, people always have their own machines and root access, but this is not true for people living on ISP accounts (and corporate world too) where root access is restricted. Consider that Haskell is not a mainstream software like perl or java, it is hard to ask sysadmin to put it under root. I was exploring Haskell website and finding more and more things I "need" to install. The time to figure out how to build each one of them is too much (consider I am a fluent IT software builder). I am wondering why Haskell community does not pacakge a "full package" that includes ghc, haddock, happy, alex, darcs, cabal, etc... Things that a "typical" developer will bump into eventually. I understand that putting two large compilers (ghc+hugs) may take a lot space, but for smaller utilities, it would be nice if they are included (if there is no unwelcomed "side effect"). Steve -----Original Message----- From: Stefan O'Rear [mailto:stefanor@cox.net] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 11:04 PM To: Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH Cc: Lihn, Steve; Haskell-Cafe Haskell-Cafe Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to thoroughly clean up Haskell stuff on linux On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 07:31:45PM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
I don't think haddock "has" to depend on lamdbabot. But I saw
"Skipping
HaddockHoogle" during the build. Isn't the Hoogle thing related to Lambdabot? Or they are unrelated.
Only insofar has Lambdabot has an interface to Hoogle (which IIRC depends on Haddock knowing how to build Hoogle indexes, which is what that segment is about). Haddock doesn't build the Hoogle stuff by default, IIRC.
Besides, "Skipping foo" is GHC-ese for "foo is already up to date, not wasting time..." Stefan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of Merck & Co., Inc. (One Merck Drive, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA 08889), and/or its affiliates (which may be known outside the United States as Merck Frosst, Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD and in Japan, as Banyu - direct contact information for affiliates is available at http://www.merck.com/contact/contacts.html) that may be confidential, proprietary copyrighted and/or legally privileged. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named on this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and then delete it from your system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------