Hi Patrick I think the problem is because PCRE uses c++, and doing a quick web search shows that _impure_ptr link errors are a recurrent problem for the PCRE binding with GHC. Funnily enough 6.10.3 worked fine - I posted to the list a month or two ago with instructions how to do it, but 6.12.1 fails for me in the same was as it fails for you. I'll try next with MinGW to see if that works... Best wishes Stpehen 2009/12/27 Patrick Caldon :

Not seen this one before.

I'm trying to install pcre-light with WinXP 64, Cygwin 1.7.1, Cabal 0.8.0, and ghc 6.12.1. Trying to reinstall "base" with cabal fails as well with an internal error (see below), but I'm assuming that's quasi-intentional/unsupported feature or something.

Any ideas?  My ultimate goal is to install ghc-core to help track down some performance problems I'm having.

Thanks, Patrick.

patc@rose ~/rp4/loansim $ cabal install pcre-light --extra-lib-dirs=C:\\cygwin\\lib --extra-include-dirs=C:\\cygwin\\usr\\include --reinstall Resolving dependencies... Configuring pcre-light-0.3.1... Preprocessing library pcre-light-0.3.1... In file included from C:/cygwin/usr/include/pcre.h:90,                from Text\Regex\PCRE\Light\Base.hsc:103: C:/cygwin/usr/include/stdlib.h:104: warning: `warning' attribute directive ignored C:/cygwin/usr/include/stdlib.h:109: warning: `warning' attribute directive ignored dist\build\Text\Regex\PCRE\Light\Base_hsc_make.o:Base_hsc_make.c:(.text+0x47): undefined reference to `_impure_ptr' dist\build\Text\Regex\PCRE\Light\Base_hsc_make.o:Base_hsc_make.c:(.text+0x7b): undefined reference to `_impure_ptr' dist\build\Text\Regex\PCRE\Light\Base_hsc_make.o:Base_hsc_make.c:(.text+0x93): undefined reference to `_impure_ptr' dist\build\Text\Regex\PCRE\Light\Base_hsc_make.o:Base_hsc_make.c:(.text+0xc7): undefined reference to `_impure_ptr' dist\build\Text\Regex\PCRE\Light\Base_hsc_make.o:Base_hsc_make.c:(.text+0xf3): undefined reference to `_impure_ptr' dist\build\Text\Regex\PCRE\Light\Base_hsc_make.o:Base_hsc_make.c:(.text+0x127): more undefined references to `_impure_ptr' follow collect2: ld returned 1 exit status linking dist\build\Text\Regex\PCRE\Light\Base_hsc_make.o failed command was: C:\ghc\ghc-6.12.1\mingw\bin\gcc.exe -LC:\cygwin\lib -lpcre -LC:\ghc\ghc-6.12.1\bytestring-0.9.1.5 -LC:\ghc\ghc-6.12.1\base-3.0.3.2 -LC:\ghc\ghc-6.12.1\syb-0.1.0.2 -LC:\ghc\ghc-6.12.1\base-4.2.0.0 -lwsock32 -luser32 -lshell32 -LC:\ghc\ghc-6.12.1\integer-gmp-0.2.0.0 -LC:\ghc\ghc-6.12.1\ghc-prim-0.2.0.0 -LC:\ghc\ghc-6.12.1 -LC:\ghc\ghc-6.12.1/gcc-lib -lm -lwsock32 -LC:\ghc\ghc-6.12.1 dist\build\Text\Regex\PCRE\Light\Base_hsc_make.o -o dist\build\Text\Regex\PCRE\Light\Base_hsc_make.exe cabal.exe: Error: some packages failed to install: pcre-light-0.3.1 failed during the building phase. The exception was: exit: ExitFailure 1

patc@rose ~/rp4/loansim $ cabal --version cabal-install version 0.8.0 using version 1.8.0.2 of the Cabal library

patc@rose ~/rp4/loansim $ ghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.12.1

patc@rose ~/rp4/loansim $ cabal install base --reinstall -p Resolving dependencies... cabal.exe: internal error: impossible

patc@rose ~/rp4/loansim $

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