I seem to be in some sort package dependency hell (which I thought the Haskell Platform did away with). I install ghc using my package manager (I'm on opensuse).
dom1@fourier:~> ghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.12.1 dom1@fourier:~> cabal --version cabal-install version 0.8.2 using version 1.8.0.4 of the Cabal library dom1@fourier:~> cabal update Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org But
dom1@fourier:~> cabal upgrade cabal-install Resolving dependencies... Downloading HTTP-4000.0.9... Configuring HTTP-4000.0.9... Preprocessing library HTTP-4000.0.9... Building HTTP-4000.0.9...
Network/StreamSocket.hs:30:7: Could not find module `Network.Socket': There are files missing in the `network-2.2.1.7' package, try running 'ghc-pkg check'. Use -v to see a list of the files searched for. cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: HTTP-4000.0.9 failed during the building phase. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 cabal-install-0.8.2 depends on HTTP-4000.0.9 which failed to install. And trying to install the Haskell Platform via http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/2010.1.0.0/cabal/haskell-platform-2010.1...
dom1@fourier:~> cabal install Resolving dependencies... cabal: dependencies conflict: ghc-6.12.1 requires directory ==1.0.1.1 however directory-1.0.1.1 was excluded because ghc-6.12.1 requires directory ==1.0.1.0 Which is somewhat baffling.
So I uninstalled ghc via the package manager and downloaded the linux binaries at http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.12.1/ghc-6.12.1-i386-unknown-linux-n.tar.bz2 But sadly
dom1@fourier:~/Downloads/ghc-6.12.1> ./configure checking for path to top of build tree... ./configure: line 1687: utils/ghc-pwd/ghc-pwd: cannot execute binary file configure: error: cannot determine current directory And indeed it is true
dom1@fourier:~/Downloads/ghc-6.12.1> utils/ghc-pwd/ghc-pwd bash: utils/ghc-pwd/ghc-pwd: cannot execute binary file I'm not sure where to go from here. I think my options are a) build ghc from source or b) find the source for ghc-pwd and compile it and then try configure again.
Any help would be appreciated. Dominic.