Hello friends, I have a question regarding one thing I can't get my head around: First my problem is, that wanted to install 'bindings-common' here on my Windows machine. Usually that is no problem with the help of the glorious cabal. Now, 'bindings-common' needs a higher version of gcc than the one bundled with ghc-6.10.4 to build as the developer told me, so I install the gcc version 4.4.0 by mingw and try to give the needed options to 'cabal install bindings-common...' - '--with-gcc=... --with-ld=...' etc. - At the same time I log everything cabal is putting to the outside world when doing the tasks for building the 'binding-commons': For this sake I use the '--build-log=...' option of 'cabal install' and at the same time pipe what gets shown on the terminal with 'tee' as well as verbosity level 3 for 'cabal install'. So far nothing new... But the package isn't built, so I wonder what the transcript is saying and have a look at the two generated log files, stating that the one generated by 'tee' tells me another linker (the one coming with the ghc-6.10.4 bundle) than I thought to have specified is actually used. An excerpt from the tee built log file: *** Linker: E:\programme\ghc\ghc-6.10.4\gcc -BE:\programme\ghc\ghc-6.10.4\gcc-lib/ ... Configured with: ../gcc-3.4.5-20060117-3/configure --with-gcc ... Thread model: win32 gcc version 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3) (Sorry if I'm mis-interpreting something here) While the log file resulting from the '--build-log' cabal install option has nothing suspicious in it telling me to (plan to?) use exactly what I specified by options. A little excerpt from that log file: ("e:\\programme\\ghc\\ghc-6.10.4\\bin\\hsc2hs.exe",["--cc=e:/programme/ghc/mingw-gcc4/bin/gcc.exe","--ld=e:/programme/ghc/mingw-gcc4/bin/gcc.exe","--cflag=-Be:/programme/ghc/mingw-gcc4/lib/","--cflag=-Ie:/programme/ghc/mingw4-gcc/include","--cflag=-Le:/programme/ghc/mingw-gcc4/lib","--lflag=-Be:/programme/ghc/mingw-gcc4/lib/","--lflag=-Ie:/programme/ghc/mingw4-gcc/include","--lflag=-Le:/programme/ghc/mingw-gcc4/lib","--cflag=-D__GLASGOW_HASKELL__=610","--cflag=-Isrc","--cflag=-Ie:/programme/ghc/mingw-gcc4/include","--cflag=-D_ISOC99_SOURCE","--lflag=-Le:/programme/ghc/mingw-gcc4/lib","--cflag=-Ie:\\programme\\ghc\\ghc-6.10.4\\base-4.1.0.0\\include","--cflag=-Ie:\\programme\\ghc\\ghc-6.10.4/include","--lflag=-Le:\\programme\\ghc\\ghc-6.10.4\\base-3.0.3.1","--lflag=-Le:\\programme\\ghc\\ghc-6.10.4\\syb-0.1.0.1","--lflag=-Le:\\programme\\ghc\\ghc-6.10.4\\base-4.1.0.0","--lflag=-lwsock32","--lflag=-luser32","--lflag=-lshell32","--lflag=-Le:\\programme\\ghc\\ghc-6.10.4\\integer-0 .1.0.1","--lflag=-Le:\\programme\\ghc\\ghc-6.10.4\\ghc-prim-0.1.0.0","--lflag=-Le:\\programme\\ghc\\ghc-6.10.4","--lflag=-Le:\\programme\\ghc\\ghc-6.10.4/gcc-lib","--lflag=-lm","--lflag=-lffi","--lflag=-lgmp","--lflag=-lwsock32","-o","H:\\.homedir\\hugsdata\\build\\Bindings\\C\\Ctype.hs","src\\Bindings\\C\\Ctype.hsc"]) ... Using ld given by user at: e:/programme/ghc/mingw-gcc4/bin/ld.exe So now my question is: Can anybody give me a good hint or tell me how I would, aside from using hard links or other file system related tasks, specify the external compiler, linker or gcc-toolchain to be used by 'cabal install' (or in consequence by 'ghc')? Cheers and thanks for your Daniel searching for ghc in path. found ghc at e:\programme\ghc\ghc-6.10.4\bin\ghc.exe ("e:\\programme\\ghc\\ghc-6.10.4\\bin\\ghc.exe",["--numeric-version"]) e:\programme\ghc\ghc-6.10.4\bin\ghc.exe is version 6.10.4 looking for package tool: ghc-pkg near compiler in e:\programme\ghc\ghc-6.10.4\bin found package tool in e:\programme\ghc\ghc-6.10.4\bin\ghc-pkg.exe ("e:\\programme\\ghc\\ghc-6.10.4\\bin\\ghc-pkg.exe",["--version"]) e:\programme\ghc\ghc-6.10.4\bin\ghc-pkg.exe is version 6.10.4 ("e:\\programme\\ghc\\ghc-6.10.4\\bin\\ghc.exe",["--supported-languages"]) Reading installed packages... ("e:\\programme\\ghc\\ghc-6.10.4\\bin\\ghc-pkg.exe",["dump","--global"]) ("e:\\programme\\ghc\\ghc-6.10.4\\bin\\ghc-pkg.exe",["dump","--package-conf=h:\\.homedir\\ghc\\i386-mingw32-6.10.4\\package.conf"]) Reading available packages... Resolving dependencies... selecting bindings-common-1.3.3 (hackage) and discarding bindings-common-0.1, 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.1.3, 0.1.4, 0.2, 0.2.1, 0.2.2, 0.2.3, 0.2.4, 0.2.5, 0.2.6, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.3.1 and 1.3.2 selecting base-3.0.3.1 (installed) and 4.1.0.0 (installed) and discarding syb-0.1.0.0 and 0.1.0.1 selecting ghc-prim-0.1.0.0 (installed) selecting integer-0.1.0.1 (installed) selecting rts-1.0 (installed) selecting syb-0.1.0.1 (installed) In order, the following would be installed: bindings-common-1.3.3 (new package) bindings-common-1.3.3 has already been downloaded. Extracting C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Zyx\Anwendungsdaten\cabal\packages\hackage.haskell.org\bindings-common\1.3.3\bindings-common-1.3.3.tar.gz to c:\DOKUME~1\Zyx\LOKALE~1\Temp\bindings-common-1.3.31176... Using external setup method with build-type Simple Creating h:\.homedir\hugsdata\setup (and its parents) Using Cabal library version 1.6.0.3 Using h:\.homedir\hugsdata\setup\setup.hs as setup script. Setup script is out of date, compiling... ("e:\\programme\\ghc\\ghc-6.10.4\\bin\\ghc.exe",["-v","--make","h:\\.homedir\\hugsdata\\setup\\setup.hs","-o","h:\\.homedir\\hugsdata\\setup\\setup.exe","-odir","h:\\.homedir\\hugsdata\\setup","-hidir","h:\\.homedir\\hugsdata\\setup","-i","-ic:\\DOKUME~1\\Zyx\\LOKALE~1\\Temp\\bindings-common-1.3.31176\\bindings-common-1.3.3","-no-user-package-conf","-package-conf","h:\\.homedir\\ghc\\i386-mingw32-6.10.4\\package.conf","-package","Cabal-1.6.0.3"]) Glasgow Haskell Compiler, Version 6.10.4, for Haskell 98, stage 2 booted by GHC version 6.10.1 Using package config file: E:\programme\ghc\ghc-6.10.4\package.conf Using package config file: h:\.homedir\ghc\i386-mingw32-6.10.4\package.conf Using package config file: h:\.homedir\ghc\i386-mingw32-6.10.4\package.conf hiding package base-3.0.3.1 to avoid conflict with later version base-4.1.0.0 hiding package regex-base-0.72.0.2 to avoid conflict with later version regex-base-0.93.1 hiding package parsec-2.1.0.1 to avoid conflict with later version parsec-3.0.1 hiding package QuickCheck-1.2.0.0 to avoid conflict with later version QuickCheck-2.1.0.2 wired-in package ghc-prim mapped to ghc-prim-0.1.0.0 wired-in package integer mapped to integer-0.1.0.1 wired-in package base mapped to base-4.1.0.0 wired-in package rts mapped to rts-1.0 wired-in package haskell98 mapped to haskell98-1.0.1.0 wired-in package syb mapped to syb-0.1.0.1 wired-in package template-haskell mapped to template-haskell-2.3.0.1 wired-in package dph-seq mapped to dph-seq-0.3 wired-in package dph-par mapped to dph-par-0.3 Hsc static flags: -static *** Chasing dependencies: Chasing modules from: *H:\.homedir\hugsdata\setup\setup.hs Stable obj: [] Stable BCO: [] Ready for upsweep [NONREC ModSummary { ms_hs_date = Mon Nov 9 14:45:34 Westeuropäische Normalzeit 2009 ms_mod = main:Main, ms_imps = [Distribution.Simple] ms_srcimps = [] }] compile: input file H:\.homedir\hugsdata\setup\setup.hs Created temporary directory: C:\DOKUME~1\Zyx\LOKALE~1\Temp\/ghc2388_0 *** Checking old interface for main:Main: [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( H:\.homedir\hugsdata\setup\setup.hs, H:\.homedir\hugsdata\setup\Main.o ) *** Parser: *** Renamer/typechecker: *** Desugar: Result size = 8 *** Simplify: Result size = 6 Result size = 6 *** Tidy Core: Result size = 6 writeBinIface: 1 Names writeBinIface: 28 dict entries *** CorePrep: Result size = 6 *** Stg2Stg: *** CodeGen: *** CodeOutput: *** Assembler: E:\programme\ghc\ghc-6.10.4\gcc -BE:\programme\ghc\ghc-6.10.4\gcc-lib/ -IE:\programme\ghc\ghc-6.10.4\include/mingw -IH:\.homedir\hugsdata\setup -c C:\DOKUME~1\Zyx\LOKALE~1\Temp\/ghc2388_0/ghc2388_0.s -o h:\.homedir\hugsdata\setup\Main.o *** Deleting temp files: Deleting: C:\DOKUME~1\Zyx\LOKALE~1\Temp\/ghc2388_0/ghc2388_0.s Upsweep completely successful. *** Deleting temp files: Deleting: link: linkables are ... LinkableM (Mon Nov 9 14:45:34 Westeuropäische Normalzeit 2009) main:Main [DotO h:\.homedir\hugsdata\setup\Main.o] Linking h:\.homedir\hugsdata\setup\setup.exe ... *** Windres: E:\programme\ghc\ghc-6.10.4\bin/windres --preprocessor="E:\programme\ghc\ghc-6.10.4\gcc" "-BE:\programme\ghc\ghc-6.10.4\gcc-lib/" "-IE:\programme\ghc\ghc-6.10.4\include/mingw" "-E" "-xc" "-DRC_INVOKED" --use-temp-file --input=C:\DOKUME~1\Zyx\LOKALE~1\Temp\/ghc2388_0/ghc2388_0.rc --output=C:\DOKUME~1\Zyx\LOKALE~1\Temp\/ghc2388_0/ghc2388_0.o --output-format=coff *** Linker: E:\programme\ghc\ghc-6.10.4\gcc -BE:\programme\ghc\ghc-6.10.4\gcc-lib/ -IE:\programme\ghc\ghc-6.10.4\include/mingw -v -o h:\.homedir\hugsdata\setup\setup.exe -DDONT_WANT_WIN32_DLL_SUPPORT h:\.homedir\hugsdata\setup\Main.o C:\DOKUME~1\Zyx\LOKALE~1\Temp\/ghc2388_0/ghc2388_0.o -Lh:\.homedir\.cabal\Cabal-1.6.0.3\ghc-6.10.4 -LE:\programme\ghc\ghc-6.10.4\process-1.0.1.1 -LE:\programme\ghc\ghc-6.10.4\pretty-1.0.1.0 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_base_GHCziIOBase_stackOverflow_closure -u _base_GHCziIOBase_heapOverflow_closure -u _base_ControlziExceptionziBase_nonTermination_closure -u _base_GHCziIOBase_blockedOnDeadMVar_closure -u _base_GHCziIOBase_blockedIndefinitely_closure -u _base_ControlziExceptionziBase_nestedAtomically_closure -u _base_GHCziWeak_runFinalizzerBatch_closure -u _base_GHCziTopHandler_runIO_closure -u _base_GHCziTopHandler_runNonIO_closure -u _base_GHCziConc_runHandlers_closure -u _base_GHCziConc_ensureIOManagerIsRunning_closure Reading specs from E:/programme/ghc/ghc-6.10.4/gcc-lib/specs Configured with: ../gcc-3.4.5-20060117-3/configure --with-gcc --with-gnu-ld --with-gnu-as --host=mingw32 --target=mingw32 --prefix=/mingw --enable-threads --disable-nls --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,ada,objc,java --disable-win32-registry --disable-shared --enable-sjlj-exceptions --enable-libgcj --disable-java-awt --without-x --enable-java-gc=boehm --disable-libgcj-debug --enable-interpreter --enable-hash-synchronization --enable-libstdcxx-debug Thread model: win32 gcc version 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3) E:/programme/ghc/ghc-6.10.4/gcc-lib/collect2.exe -Bdynamic -o h:\.homedir\hugsdata\setup\setup.exe -u _ghczmprim_GHCziTypes_Izh_static_info -u _ghczmprim_GHCziTypes_Czh_static_info -u _ghczmprim_GHCziTypes_Fzh_static_info -u _ghczmprim_GHCziTypes_Dzh_static_info -u _base_GHCziPtr_Ptr_static_info -u _base_GHCziWord_Wzh_static_info -u _base_GHCziInt_I8zh_static_info -u _base_GHCziInt_I16zh_static_info -u _base_GHCziInt_I32zh_static_info -u _base_GHCziInt_I64zh_static_info -u _base_GHCziWord_W8zh_static_info -u _base_GHCziWord_W16zh_static_info -u _base_GHCziWord_W32zh_static_info -u _base_GHCziWord_W64zh_static_info -u _base_GHCziStable_StablePtr_static_info -u _ghczmprim_GHCziTypes_Izh_con_info -u _ghczmprim_GHCziTypes_Czh_con_info -u _ghczmprim_GHCziTypes_Fzh_con_info -u _ghczmprim_GHCziTypes_Dzh_con_info -u _base_GHCziPtr_Ptr_con_info -u _base_GHCziPtr_FunPtr_con_info -u 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-lHSghc-prim-0.1.0.0 -lHSrts -lm -lffi -lgmp -lwsock32 -lmingw32 -lgcc -lmoldname -lmingwex -lmsvcrt -luser32 -lkernel32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lmingw32 -lgcc -lmoldname -lmingwex -lmsvcrt E:/programme/ghc/ghc-6.10.4/gcc-lib/crtend.o link: done *** Deleting temp files: Deleting: C:\DOKUME~1\Zyx\LOKALE~1\Temp\/ghc2388_0/ghc2388_0.o C:\DOKUME~1\Zyx\LOKALE~1\Temp\/ghc2388_0/ghc2388_0.rc *** Deleting temp dirs: Deleting: C:\DOKUME~1\Zyx\LOKALE~1\Temp\/ghc2388_0 h:\.homedir\hugsdata\setup\setup.exe configure --verbose=3 --builddir=h:\.homedir\hugsdata --ghc --prefix=h:\.homedir\.cabal --datadir=h:\.homedir\.cabal --configure-option=CC=e:\programme\mingw-gcc4\bin\gcc.exe --user --package-db=h:\.homedir\ghc\i386-mingw32-6.10.4\package.conf --extra-include-dirs=e:/programme/ghc/mingw-gcc4/include --extra-lib-dirs=e:/programme/ghc/mingw-gcc4/lib --constraint=base ==3.0.3.1 --with-gcc=e:\programme\ghc\mingw-gcc4\bin\gcc.exe --with-ld=e:\programme\ghc\mingw-gcc4\bin\ld.exe --gcc-option=-v --gcc-option=-Wall Redirecting build log to {handle: h:\.homedir\hugsdata\build-bindings-common-1.3.3-ghc-6.10.4.log} Using external setup method with build-type Simple Creating h:\.homedir\hugsdata\setup (and its parents) Using Cabal library version 1.6.0.3 Using h:\.homedir\hugsdata\setup\setup.hs as setup script. h:\.homedir\hugsdata\setup\setup.exe build --verbose=3 --builddir=h:\.homedir\hugsdata Redirecting build log to {handle: h:\.homedir\hugsdata\build-bindings-common-1.3.3-ghc-6.10.4.log} cabal.exe: Error: some packages failed to install: bindings-common-1.3.3 failed during the building phase. The exception was: exit: ExitFailure 1