What is the status of hs-plugins? I recently tried to install the version plugins-1.2 on hackage, using a Gnu/Linux box with Fedora 9 and ghc-6.8.2, but didn't get past the configure stage (see config.log below).
I am getting exactly the same error on a Gentoo box. I've tracked it down to some awkward escape character sequence in the TOP variable defined in config.h. The following patch makes it work for me, but I've no idea if this is the right way to fix this problem: hunk ./configure 1385 -TOP=`echo "Directory.getCurrentDirectory >>= putStrLn.init.tail.show " | ghc --interactive -ignore-dot-ghci -v0 | tr -d '\r'` +TOP=`echo "Directory.getCurrentDirectory >>= putStr." | ghc --interactive -ignore-dot-ghci -v0` hunk ./configure.ac 66 -TOP=`echo "Directory.getCurrentDirectory >>= putStrLn.init.tail.show " | ghc --interactive -ignore-dot-ghci -v0 | tr -d '\r'` +TOP=`echo "Directory.getCurrentDirectory >>= putStr" | ghc --interactive -ignore-dot-ghci -v0` Regards, T.