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July 2006

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nhc98 bug
by GaMeR uWe 21 Aug '06

21 Aug '06

I found something in the nhc98's configure script that leads me to believe that there is a bug somewhere, I don't see the point in searching for it on my own as it is nothing big, just slightly annoying. When ./configure is run, the file nhc98-1.18/lib/ix86-linux/config is created, however make cannot be run because of the following message it will output, "*** missing separator.". I then checked what the file generated by ./configure contained and I found the problem. It contained: "... GHCSYM= 604 TRUE=/bin/true" Where ... represents other variables set before GHCSYM (none of those above had a problem). As you can see, there is a gap between GHCSYM= and the value of 604 which seems to belong to GHCSYM. So I changed it to GHCSYM=604 and then everything compiled and installed. nhc98 does execute from the terminal, I havn't tried compiling anything yet but I am sure it will compile things without a problem, I just thought I'd let you know about this problem with that file. Thanks.

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Trouble getting nhc98 to work
by Karl Crary 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Dear NHC98 maintainers, I was experimenting with nhc98 because I was led to believe that using it, I might be able to use the Haskell FFI to link with libraries built using Cygwin. Unfortunately, I never got far enough to try that; it's failing right out of the box. First I tried the binary distribution. The configure and install process seemed to go smoothly, but in my first attempt to use the compiler I get: /usr/local/bin/nhc98: line 131: C:/cygwin/usr/local/lib/nhc98/ix86-CYGWIN_NT-5.1/hmake-PRAGMA: No such file or directory /usr/local/bin/nhc98: line 131: C:/cygwin/usr/local/lib/nhc98/ix86-CYGWIN_NT-5.1/hmake-PRAGMA: No such file or directory /usr/local/bin/nhc98: line 131: C:/cygwin/usr/local/lib/nhc98/ix86-CYGWIN_NT-5.1/hmake-PRAGMA: No such file or directory /usr/local/bin/nhc98: line 547: C:/cygwin/usr/local/lib/nhc98/ix86-CYGWIN_NT-5.1/nhc98comp: No such file or directory I then tried to build from source, but with no better luck. Configure seems to go smoothly, but the build breaks down quickly: bash-3.1$ make ghc -cpp -o lib/ix86-CYGWIN_NT-5.1/hmake-PRAGMA script/hmake-PRAGMA.hs cd src/runtime; make all nhc98heap.exe make[1]: Entering directory `/c/nhc98-1.18/src/runtime' Makefile:27: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/nhc98-1.18/src/runtime' make: *** [targets/ix86-CYGWIN_NT-5.1/runtime] Error 2 bash-3.1$ gmake bash: gmake: command not found bash-3.1$ which make /usr/bin/make bash-3.1$ make cd src/runtime; make all nhc98heap.exe make[1]: Entering directory `/c/nhc98-1.18/src/runtime' Makefile:27: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/nhc98-1.18/src/runtime' make: *** [targets/ix86-CYGWIN_NT-5.1/runtime] Error 2 Any idea what I might be doing wrong? -- Karl Crary

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