On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 12:28 -0600, Jeff Wheeler wrote:
On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 18:24 +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
In my experience, it usually fails because of missing dependencies like zlib-dev on my own system, but those are easy to fix, at which point I can rerun the bootstrap script.
Patches accepted.
Without digressing too much, I don't think much can be done here. I would not (and should not) expect the bootstrap.sh file to use apt to get the missing dependencies as I had to do.
I don't think there's any general solution to this, beyond better error handling (which apparently you just improved).
It'll still fall over when it fails to find the zlib C lib. That's a slightly more general issue: Check for required C libraries during configure http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/262 Again, patches gratefully accepted :-) Duncan