Hi Don, Is this the kind of thing you mean (I'm not really a darcs user; this is the patch created by darcs record): [Hide some names to remove ambiguity errors Edsko de Vries **20080602202001] { hunk ./src/System/Plugins/Env.hs 76 -import Distribution.Package +import Distribution.Package hiding (packageName) hunk ./src/System/Plugins/PackageAPI.hs 43 -import Distribution.Package +import Distribution.Package hiding (depends, packageName) hunk ./src/System/Plugins/ParsePkgConfCabal.hs 9 -import Distribution.Package +import Distribution.Package hiding (depends) } Edsko

Hi, 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). The installation script is invoking gcc with a -V command line argument but according to gcc documentation -V requires an argument. Has anyone managed to get hs-plugins to work? If so, what platform, which version of ghc and gcc, and where did you find the hs-plugins source? Best wishes, John O'Donnell ... from config.log... gcc version 4.3.0 20080428 (Red Hat 4.3.0-8) (GCC) configure:1852: $? = 0 configure:1854: gcc -V &5 gcc: '-V' option must have argument configure:1857: $? = 1 configure:1880: checking for C compiler default output file name configure:1883: gcc conftest.c >&5 conftest.c:9:13: warning: missing terminating " character conftest.c:10: error: stray '\33' in program conftest.c:10: error: expected identifier or '(' before '[' token conftest.c:10:4: error: invalid suffix "h" on integer constant conftest.c:10:9: warning: missing terminating " character conftest.c:10: error: missing terminating " character configure:1886: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h. */ | | #define PACKAGE_NAME "" | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "" | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "" | #define PACKAGE_STRING "" | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "" | #define LEADING_UNDERSCORE 0 | #define TOP "/home/jtod/system/installs/hs-plugins/hs-plugins-1.2 | ESC[?1034h" | #define WITH_GHC "ghc" | #define GHC_LIB_PATH "/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.8.2" | /* end confdefs.h. */ | | int | main () | { | | ; | return 0; | } configure:1925: error: C compiler cannot create executables -----Original Message----- From: haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org on behalf of Edsko de Vries Sent: Mon 2008-06-02 20:23 To: Don Stewart Cc: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] hs-plugins compile error Hi Don, Is this the kind of thing you mean (I'm not really a darcs user; this is the patch created by darcs record): [Hide some names to remove ambiguity errors Edsko de Vries **20080602202001] { hunk ./src/System/Plugins/Env.hs 76 -import Distribution.Package +import Distribution.Package hiding (packageName) hunk ./src/System/Plugins/PackageAPI.hs 43 -import Distribution.Package +import Distribution.Package hiding (depends, packageName) hunk ./src/System/Plugins/ParsePkgConfCabal.hs 9 -import Distribution.Package +import Distribution.Package hiding (depends) } Edsko _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Thanks, Edsko. My version of gcc is 4.3.0. It may well be that some other piece of software in the Fedora 9 distribution is incompatible with the hs-plugins installation script. Has anyone installed hs-plugins on Fedora? I was able to get it to compile on Fedora 4, using ghc-6.4, two or three years ago, but it's never worked on any of my systems since then. John -----Original Message----- From: Edsko de Vries [mailto:devriese@cs.tcd.ie] Sent: Tue 2008-06-03 15:35 To: John O'Donnell Cc: Edsko de Vries; Don Stewart; haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] hs-plugins compile error On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 03:07:33PM +0100, John O'Donnell wrote:

Hi,

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).

The installation script is invoking gcc with a -V command line argument but according to gcc documentation -V requires an argument.

Has anyone managed to get hs-plugins to work? If so, what platform, which version of ghc and gcc, and where did you find the hs-plugins source?

It's working fine for me (after applying the patch I submitted), on Debian Lenny (which currently comes with ghc 6.8.2, gcc 4.2.4) and the source from Hackage. Source from the darcs repository also works fine (after applying the same patch). I *am* getting an application crash sometimes when I close my application, but I have not yet been able to track that down so I'm not 100% sure it's due to hs-plugins. Edsko