When compiling nhc98-1.10 on my Red Hat Linux 7.2 box with ghc-5.02 (after applying the patch that enables the detection of ghc) compilation stops with an error message:
.... hmake -nhc98 Hatobserve .... hmake: Sorry, I do not know about your installation of nhc98
Ah, that is unfortunate. Some of the hat tools (hat-observe and hat-detect) must be compiled with nhc98, but the hmake in your build tree does not yet know about the fresh nhc98, because hmake was configured _before_ you built nhc98! A workaround is: make install # install the fresh nhc98 script/confhc # detect compilers again, including the fresh nhc98 ./configure # propagate the new hmake configuration make all # finish off the build (just the hat tools) make install # and do the final install For the future, I shall try to think of a clean way to enable hmake to have automatic knowledge of the fresh nhc98 in the build tree. Regards, Malcolm