On 2008.06.26 03:00:27 -0400, Reid Barton scribbled 1.4K characters:

I'm trying to install GHC from the darcs repository for the first time, so I'm hoping someone here can tell me if I'm doing something wrong before I bother cvs-ghc.

I'm currently running ghc 6.8.2 on Debian x86 Linux. Following the instructions on the wiki, I put the following in a file and ran it:

#!/bin/bash darcs get --partial http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc cd ghc chmod +x darcs-all ./darcs-all get sh boot ./configure --prefix=$HOME/ghc-HEAD make make install

but during the "make install" step I get the error

../../compiler/stage1/ghc-inplace -no-user-package-conf -o ghc-pkg.bin -H32m -O -cpp -Wall -fno-warn-name-shadowing -fno-warn-unused-matches -package Cabal -Rghc-timing -package unix -package containers Main.o Version.o CRT_noglob.o Main.o: In function `s7AP_info': (.text+0x1d): undefined reference to `prettyzm1zi0zi0zi0_TextziPrettyPrintziHughesPJ_Str_con_info' {- hundreds of similar errors (not all from the pretty package, some from base and others as well) -} collect2: ld returned 1 exit status <> make[2]: *** [ghc-pkg.bin] Error 1 Failed making install in ghc-pkg: 1 make[1]: *** [install] Error 1 make: *** [install] Error 1

Have I got some of the steps wrong?

Regards, Reid Barton

For what it's worth, I've gotten the same exact problem building darcs GHC - innumerable link errors during make install. I haven't figured out what the problem was yet (hadn't gotten around to reporting it yet either). This was on a Hardy Heron Ubuntu/GHC 6.8.2 etc. -- gwern football Pine UXO SASCOM Comirex shelter ARDA/DTO industrial NSES Mace