Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC 7, Platform 2011.2 vs OS X 10.5, Ubuntu 11.04

On 2011 May 23, at 14:16, Jacek Generowicz wrote:

On 2011 May 23, at 13:45, Anthony Cowley wrote:

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On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Jacek Generowicz wrote:

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I think your strategy of nuking everything Haskell through your package manager (if available), then manually (not forgetting ~/.ghc and ~/.cabal) was prudent to get out of the hole you found yourself in.

Yup, ~/.ghc and ~/.cabal didn't escape my attention.

Hmm, maybe I was mistaken, and maybe ~/.ghc survived. I nuked everything again (there was a .ghc: I assumed it had been re-created, but maybe it was an old one (I didn't check the datestamps), but no .cabal). Now 'make' and 'make install' *have* worked for HP. Haven't got around to trying to use it yet, but I thought I'd share the good news. Thanks for your moral support, it seems to have done the trick :-) Conclusion: I *probably* failed to remove ~/.ghc, so some old data were interfering with the supposedly clean installation. A manual install of the GHC 7.0.3 generic Linux binary, followed by installation from source of HP 2011.2.0.1 *has* worked for me on Ubuntu Natty, once I nuked *all* previous traces of Haksell on the system. I *did* have to install libgmp in order for the configuration step of HP to succeed. Thanks for your help.