Hello all, If you have already received this, I appologize. I had sent it to haskell@haskell.org before I subscribed to this mailing list. Then I got an automatic reply, saying my posting was waiting for the moderator's approval since it was posted from a non-subscribed address. Immediatedly after receiving this automatic reply did I subscribed, but I still don't see my posting. So I assume that the moderator is on vacation :-) and post this again. Cheers, Ryo ============================== Hello all, I'm new to this mailing list and not quite sure if this is an appropriate place to ask this. If not, I'd appreciate it if you could direct me to a more suitable place. I compiled from source and installed GHC 6.2.1 on my Debian GNU/Linux box. That went flawlessly. Now I'm trying to install greencard-3.01. The installation phase goes wrong:

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begin quote >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/amakihi/furue/tmp/greencard-3.01/lib' cpp -x c -DINSTALLING -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib/greencard-3.01\" -DPACKAGE=\"greencard\" -DPACKAGE_DEPS=' "base"' -DLIBRARY=\"HSgreencard\" package.conf.in \ | sed -e 's/^#.*$//g' -e 's/""//g' -e 's/, ]/ ]/g' \ | ghc-pkg --force --update-package Reading package info from stdin... Fail: Couldn't parse package configuration. make[1]: *** [install-pkg] Error 1 <<<<< end quote <<<<<<<<<<

Could someone know what is wrong? I grabbed the result of the "cpp ... | sed ... " pipe and separately fed ghc-pkg with it, and I got the same error. I'm attaching the result of the pipe at the end of this message. Also, I found that GHC_OPTS = -cpp -fglasgow-exts -fno-prune-tydecls in greencard-3.01/lib/Makefile causes error with ghc 6.2.1, which says '-fno-prune-tydecls' is an invalid argument. I removed this option and the compilation of greencard went well. But, is this really OK? Thank you, Ryo ====================== [Result of the "cpp ... | sed ... " pipe] Package { name = "greencard" , auto = True, import_dirs = [ "/usr/local/lib/greencard-3.01" "/imports" ], source_dirs = [], library_dirs = [ "/usr/local/lib/greencard-3.01" ], hs_libraries = [ "HSgreencard" ], extra_libraries = [], include_dirs = [], c_includes = [], package_deps = [ "base" ], extra_ghc_opts = [], extra_cc_opts = [], extra_ld_opts = [] }