Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fwd: [GHC] #939: Possible bug building wxhaskell

Hi Jason, Jun Mukai aka. jmuk already tried and successed to build wxhaskell on GHC 6.6. Here is his install log. http://sequence.complete.org/node/214 And I made patch for ghc 6.6 from it. Attached solves a few problem ... but you must be careful to your permission. This patch solve package's interface problem with separated build and install process support. And "make" ("make all") depend on installing wxcore. So you have to use "sudo" other than Windows. I don't know what is the best approach. But advantage is We can make binary (easy install) package for Windows and Mac OS X user. http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2006-September/011043... You can build binary package following command. make make before-dist make bindist Note that attached fix only GHC 6.6 problem, doesn't fix other - no GHC 6.6 reason - problems. If you will failure to build from other problems, you must see this page first. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/WxHaskell/Install Best Regards, On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:29:45 +0900, Jason Dagit wrote:

I reported the following bug and received the response below. Any wxhaskell hackers up to the challenge? I'd really love to see the makefiles go away and see wxhaskell just use cabal but I don't know if that's possible given the wxhaskell build requirements.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks Jason

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: GHC Date: Oct 13, 2006 5:21 PM Subject: Re: [GHC] #939: Possible bug building wxhaskell To: dagit@codersbase.com

#939: Possible bug building wxhaskell -------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- Reporter: dagit@codersbase.com | Owner: Type: bug | Status: closed Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 6.6 Severity: normal | Resolution: invalid Keywords: | Difficulty: Unknown Architecture: x86 | Os: Unknown -------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- Changes (by duncan):

* resolution: => invalid * status: new => closed

Comment:

It's not a GHC bug. It's a problem with the way wxHaskell is built. Admitidedly this is due to a slight change in the way GHC manages packages but it's not a bug as such, wxHaskell just needs fixing.

What needs to happen is that the packages must be registered locally before they get used in other packages. Also, instead of importing the modules from the other package directly from the directory with -i foo/, it must be via -package foo.

So you'll need to get in contact with someone who knows enough about wxHaskell's build system to fix it. Try asking on the ghc-users or haskell-cafe mailing lists.

------------------------ The bug report: I appologize if this isn't a GHC bug but since it started happening after a GHC upgrade I suspect it's a GHC bug.

After upgrading to ghc6.6 on windows (using the release binary) I tried to install the current wxhaskell release found here: http://wxhaskell.sourceforge.net/download.html (version wxhaskell-src-0.9.4-1.zip)

I have used wxhaskell on this machine before with older version of ghc (including ghc6.5, specifically visual haskell) so my environment for building the wxhaskell source was already setup. When I first got the error below I thought maybe my version of wxhaskell was messed up so I redownloaded the above zip file and unzipped a fresh copy.

I unziped the source then I typed: configure && make

Things went along fairly smoothly for a while then suddenly I got this error message: ghc -c wx/src/Graphics/UI/WX/Types.hs -o out/wx/imports/Graphics/UI/WX/Types.o -iout/wx/imports -odir out/wx/imports -hidir out/wx/imports -fvia-C -package-name wx -iout/wx/imports

wx/src/Graphics/UI/WX/Types.hs:94:0: Bad interface file: out/wx/imports/Graphics/UI/WXCore/Types.hi Something is amiss; requested module wx:Graphics.UI.WXCore.Types differs from name found in the interface file wxcore:Graphics.UI.WXCore.Types make: *** [out/wx/imports/Graphics/UI/WX/Types.o] Error 1

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