On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Galchin, Vasili
Right I am just trying to rebuild the unix package. No matter what version is present in the unix.cabal file,
runhaskell Setup.hs configure
produces an error concerning unix-2.3.0.0
Have you tried doing a 'runhaskell Setup.hs clean' first? You should also try unregistering the unix-2.3 package (ghc-pkg unregister unix-2.3.0.0).
Starting to get really frustrated over this. I just want to build a Unix package test case .. and now I can't even build the unix package itself.
ghc-pkg seems to be at the center of this problem because the problem seems to have to deal with the package database.
1) On Linux(Ubuntu) where is the package database?
The global package database should be somewhere like /usr/lib/ghc-6.6.1/package.conf on my system it is in /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.8.2/package.conf. The local (user) package database is in something like ~/.ghc/i386-linux-version/package.conf.
2) If ghc-pkg is indeed a Haskell program, how can I get the source to better understand the problem I am encountering on my own?
It is part of the ghc source, in utils/ghc-pkg. -Brent