I have problems building X11. I just installed ghc 6.8 but I got the same behaviour when asking it to use the old compiler. Jens
runghc Setup.hs configure Configuring X11-1.3.0.20071111... checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for X... libraries /usr/X11R6/lib64, headers /usr/X11R6/include checking for gethostbyname... yes checking for connect... yes checking for remove... yes checking for shmat... yes checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes checking whether to build Xinerama... yes checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking X11/extensions/Xinerama.h usability... yes checking X11/extensions/Xinerama.h presence... yes checking for X11/extensions/Xinerama.h... yes configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating config.mk config.status: creating X11.buildinfo config.status: creating include/HsX11Config.h config.status: include/HsX11Config.h is unchanged config.status: creating include/X11_extras_config.h config.status: include/X11_extras_config.h is unchanged runghc Setup.hs build Preprocessing library X11-1.3.0.20071111... Building X11-1.3.0.20071111... [ 1 of 17] Compiling Graphics.X11.Xlib.Types ( dist/build/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Types.hs, dist/build/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Types.o ) [ 2 of 17] Compiling Graphics.X11.Types ( dist/build/Graphics/X11/Types.hs, dist/build/Graphics/X11/Types.o ) [ 3 of 17] Compiling Graphics.X11.Xlib.Atom ( dist/build/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Atom.hs, dist/build/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Atom.o ) [ 4 of 17] Compiling Graphics.X11.Xlib.Color ( Graphics/X11/Xlib/Color.hs, dist/build/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Color.o ) [ 5 of 17] Compiling Graphics.X11.Xlib.Context ( Graphics/X11/Xlib/Context.hs, dist/build/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Context.o ) [ 6 of 17] Compiling Graphics.X11.Xlib.Display ( Graphics/X11/Xlib/Display.hs, dist/build/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Display.o ) [ 7 of 17] Compiling Graphics.X11.Xlib.Event ( dist/build/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Event.hs, dist/build/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Event.o ) [ 8 of 17] Compiling Graphics.X11.Xlib.Font ( dist/build/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Font.hs, dist/build/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Font.o ) [ 9 of 17] Compiling Graphics.X11.Xlib.Misc ( dist/build/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Misc.hs, dist/build/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Misc.o ) [10 of 17] Compiling Graphics.X11.Xlib.Region ( Graphics/X11/Xlib/Region.hs, dist/build/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Region.o ) [11 of 17] Compiling Graphics.X11.Xlib.Screen ( Graphics/X11/Xlib/Screen.hs, dist/build/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Screen.o ) [12 of 17] Compiling Graphics.X11.Xlib.Window ( Graphics/X11/Xlib/Window.hs, dist/build/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Window.o ) [13 of 17] Compiling Graphics.X11.Xlib.Image ( Graphics/X11/Xlib/Image.hs, dist/build/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Image.o ) [14 of 17] Compiling Graphics.X11.Xlib ( Graphics/X11/Xlib.hs, dist/build/Graphics/X11/Xlib.o ) [15 of 17] Compiling Graphics.X11.Xlib.Extras ( dist/build/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Extras.hs, dist/build/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Extras.o ) Warning: orphan instances: instance base:GHC.Read.Read [ X11-1.3.0.20071111:Graphics.X11.Xlib.Types.Rectangle] = $f1
[16 of 17] Compiling Graphics.X11.Xinerama ( dist/build/Graphics/X11/Xinerama.hs, dist/build/Graphics/X11/Xinerama.o ) [17 of 17] Compiling Graphics.X11 ( Graphics/X11.hs, dist/build/Graphics/X11.o ) /usr/bin/ar: creating dist/build/libHSX11-1.3.0.20071111.a
sudo runghc Setup.hs install root's password: Setup.hs: Warning: Unknown field 'build-type' Setup.hs: error reading ./.setup-config; run "setup configure" command?