I have gotten ghc 6.7 to compile, but not with extra libs. I'm on linux x86, ubuntu. Can someone suggest a download date that worked for them, or how to fix one or more of the problems described below? When I build from source (this is for august 2, unknown linux, as conal spoke well of it :) but I have tried with several other dates in august with the same result) I get Linux linuxpt 2.6.15-23-386 #1 PREEMPT Tue May 23 13:49:40 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux The programs included with the Ubuntu system are free software; checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu Which we'll further canonicalise into: i386-unknown-linux checking for path to top of build tree... ./configure: line 1433: cd: utils/pwd: No such file or directory ./configure: line 1438: -v0: command not found ./configure: line 1441: utils/pwd/pwd: No such file or directory configure: error: cannot determine current directory when I try unzip src and extralibs I get (aug 15... tail of a large out file after >1.5 hours of configure; make > out.txt) ...... make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hartthoma/installs/ghc6.7/aug15/ghc-6.7.20070815/libraries' make -C libraries all make[1]: Entering directory `/home/hartthoma/installs/ghc6.7/aug15/ghc-6.7.20070815/libraries' rm -f -f stamp/configure.library.*.base base/unbuildable ( cd base && setup/Setup configure \ --enable-library-profiling --enable-split-objs \ --prefix='$topdir' \ --datadir='$prefix/share/ghc' \ --datasubdir='.' \ --libsubdir='$compiler/lib/$pkgid' \ --with-compiler=../../compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace\ --with-hc-pkg=../../utils/ghc-pkg/ghc-pkg-inplace\ --with-hsc2hs=../../utils/hsc2hs/hsc2hs-inplace \ --with-ld=/usr/bin/ld \ --haddock-args="--use-contents=../index.html \ --use-index=../doc-index.html" \ \ --configure-option=--with-cc=gcc ) \ && touch stamp/configure.library.build-profiling-splitting.base || touch base/unbuildable Setup: Warning: Unknown fields: nhc98-options (line 173) Fields allowed in this section: buildable, cc-options, ld-options, frameworks, c-sources, extensions, extra-libraries, extra-lib-dirs, includes, install-includes, include-dirs, hs-source-dirs, other-modules, ghc-prof-options, ghc-options, hugs-options, nhc-options, jhc-options, exposed-modules Setup: Warning: A package using section syntax should require "Cabal-Version: >= 1.2" or equivalent. HsColour 1.6 configure: Reading installed packages... Configuring base-2.1... configure: Flags chosen: isghc=True configure: Dependency rts-any: using rts-1.0 Setup: executing external program failed (exit 1) : /usr/local/bin/HsColour -version rm -f base/GNUmakefile cp Makefile.local base if ifBuildable/ifBuildable base; then \ cd base && setup/Setup makefile -f GNUmakefile; \ fi Setup: error reading dist/setup-config; run "setup configure" command? make[1]: *** [base/GNUmakefile] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hartthoma/installs/ghc6.7/aug15/ghc-6.7.20070815/libraries' make: *** [stage1] Error 2 very weird error because when I execute /usr/local/bin/HsColour -version it doesn't fail but outputs 1.6. Can somebody suggest a download date known to compile (with extralibs) for ubuntu? Or suggest a fix? By the way I have also tried darcs get http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc but this dies about halfway through (in the patch 10000s ) with libcurl error 18 or libcurl error 404 depending on the phase of the moon. I'm currently trying a build from darcs checkout with get --partial. If this is the preferred way of doing a checkout due to "crapping out halfway" issues maybe it should be said in the readme. (to be honest I forget what the difference between a partial darcs get and a complete get is.) Much obliged, thomas. "Conal Elliott" <conal@conal.net> Sent by: cvs-ghc-bounces@haskell.org 08/15/2007 06:38 PM To cvs-ghc@haskell.org cc Subject Fwd: how to get packages for HEAD snapshot ? oops -- meant to cc cvs-ghc btw, 20070802 does run and does have libs included. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Conal Elliott < conal@conal.net> Date: Aug 15, 2007 2:56 PM Subject: Re: how to get packages for HEAD snapshot ? To: Stefan O'Rear <stefanor@cox.net> Thank Stefan, The latest mingw32 snapshot I see is 20070811. I installed it also, and when I run ghc, it just crashes (WinXP). Happens when I run it inside of emacs and also in a cygwin bash window. Is that a known problem? - Conal On 8/15/07, Stefan O'Rear < stefanor@cox.net> wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 02:20:53PM -0700, Conal Elliott wrote:

I installed ghc-6.7.20070810-i386-unknown-mingw32.exe. Though it runs, I don't know how to get other packages installed, including Cabal. "ghc-pkg list" tells me that I have only {ghc-6.7.20070810}, rts-1.0.

Any suggestions?

Upgrade GHC; Cabal should be installed but wasn't due to a bug in that snapshot. Stefan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGw3AnFBz7OZ2P+dIRArOwAKCMEEzbB/JwEYnA21wZb4gf1rCoDQCeL1DG u5ljAbmfp5j0sd5X51nf3wk= =hewc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list Cvs-ghc@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc --- This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden.