I have now found the cause of this installation bug:
It turned out that I had everything, except for , includePaths = [""]
Anyway, I fixed this manually, and the build seemed to proceed smoothly. Installation complained a little:
Adjusting... hmakerc shUsage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]... Try `grep --help' for more information. : NHC98INCDIR: not found shUsage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]... Try `grep --help' for more information. : NHC98INCDIR: not found hat-trail.jar hood.jar
It is due to a feature of certain unix-derived operating systems, where in a system() call, the caret character (^) is interpreted as a pipe operator (|). (This is a legacy from the original Unix shell I think.) If you need to fix this bug in hmake-config, a patch is now available at ftp://ftp.cs.york.ac.uk/pub/haskell/nhc98/patch-1.12-hmake-config Regards, Malcolm