tphyahoo wrote:
Very, very helpful Chris; thanks; and thanks also to the many other helpful haskellers.
They have (hopefully working) cabal files to make compiling and installing ea\ sy.
Unfortunately, not so easy, for PCRE.regex. But hopefully this is just due to my ignorance and there's a simple workaround.
I think that it is simpler than you think. Cabal is confusing you.
At any rate, after darcs --getting as you suggested, I ran make, and got various complaints. I installed haddock, happy, alex, hat, c2hs, and cpphs with apt-get.
Well, the Makefile is just sugar for the Cabal Setup.hs file. Running --configure notices that many things are not installed, but this is just noise from Cabal. With my development directory I get this output from "./setup --configure":
Configuring regex-pcre-0.80... configure: /usr/local/bin/ghc-pkg configure: Dependency base>=2.0: using base-2.0 configure: Dependency regex-base-any: using regex-base-0.71 configure: Using install prefix: /usr/local configure: Binaries installed in: /usr/local/bin configure: Libraries installed in: /usr/local/lib/regex-pcre-0.80/ghc-6.6 configure: Private binaries installed in: /usr/local/libexec configure: Data files installed in: /usr/local/share/regex-pcre-0.80 configure: Using compiler: /usr/local/bin/ghc configure: Compiler flavor: GHC configure: Compiler version: 6.6 configure: Using package tool: /usr/local/bin/ghc-pkg configure: Using ar found on system at: /usr/bin/ar configure: Using haddock found on system at: /usr/local/bin/haddock configure: No pfesetup found configure: Using ranlib found on system at: /usr/bin/ranlib configure: Using runghc found on system at: /usr/local/bin/runghc configure: No runhugs found configure: No happy found configure: No alex found configure: Using hsc2hs: /usr/local/bin/hsc2hs configure: No c2hs found configure: No cpphs found configure: No greencard found
This is sufficient to compile regex-pcre so long as you also have libpcre where ghc will find it. The main this is that it found ghc-6.6 and the hsc2hs and ghc-pkg that came with ghc. Specifically commands to run: make setup # this means Setup.hs is compiled once into "setup" for speed ./setup --configure -p --user --prefix=/where/you/want/it ./setup build ./setup install --user ./setup clean If you really want it to be global, then remove the --user and --prefix and install with sudo. Also, "./setup --help" is useful.