Hi, I've recently started working with Haskell (a new years resolution to learn something new and different) and hugs seemed to be the best way to start. I first installed the March 2005 version from the OpenBSD ports system, but, that wasn't the latest so that had to change. I first installed the Sep 2006 one on Solaris 8 and Linux (Fedora Core 1) and found that I had to add -L/usr/X11R6/lib to the "X11" line in X11.cabal. Once that was done both of the builds seemed sucessful. Then we started on the problem children all running OpenBSD. OpenBSD was harder for seemingly no coherent reason. The procedure ended up being: gmake EXTRA_CONFIGURE_OPTS="--prefix=/home/edoneel/local-`uname -m` --enable-ffi --with-pthreads" # Link things that didn't, for what ever reason, get built the first time. ln ./libraries/bootlib/Foreign/C/Error.so hugsdir/packages/base/Foreign/C/ ln ./libraries/bootlib/Foreign/Marshal/*.so hugsdir/packages/base/Foreign/Marshal ln ./libraries/bootlib/Foreign/Ptr.so hugsdir/packages/base/Foreign/ ln ./libraries/bootlib/System/Posix/Internals.so hugsdir/packages/base/System/Posix/ # force the packages to be rebuilt rm libraries/bootlib/.stamp rm -rf hugsdir/programs/ gmake EXTRA_CONFIGURE_OPTS="--prefix=/home/edoneel/local-`uname -m` --enable-ffi --with-pthreads" . The silly ln commands in the middle are becuase around line 149 of ./libraries/bootlib/Distribution/Simple/Hugs.hs it seems that there are no FFI libraries to compile. Sadly I'm not knowledgeable enough to see the problem. Anyway, after the above steps Hugs Sep 2006 runs on OpenBSD Sparc, Sparc64 and PPC and works very nicly. OpenGL didn't build, but I don't need that for now. Cheers, and thanks for Hugs, it's quite nice. bruce