Hello all, I just 'darcs got' the sources and compiled YHC on Linux (Ubuntu) last night. I got it to compile just fine with 'make' but on the install side of things I ran into a number of problems. I read on the wiki (YHC/Building) that
There currently isn't a 'make install', but it is fairly trivial: simply copy the contents of the 'inst' directory into where everything should be installed.
I didn't find this to be the case. I copied the 'inst' folder to '/usr/lib/yhc', but then (1) I had to set up an environment variable YHC_BASE_PATH to point there, (2) I had to symlink 'yhi' and 'yhc' to '/usr/bin'. That really wasn't that big of a deal. I ran YHC on a test Haskell script, called Main.hs:
module Main (main) where
fac 0 = 1 fac n | n > 0 = n * fac (n-1)
main = print $ fac 30
and it succeeds. But, trying to run the .hbc file with yhi fails: -------- ERROR: couldn't find module named 'Data/Ratio' tried: Data/Ratio.hbc /usr/lib/yhc/lib/yhc/packages/yhc-base/1.0/Data/Ratio.hbc -------- In that directory, there exist a bunch of .hbc and .hi file pairs (Char, Array, List, Ix, Complex, Maybe, PackedString, _CharNumeric) , AND Ratio.hi, but no Ratio.hbc ..., (incidentally, /usr/lib/yhc/lib/yhc/packages/haskell98/1.0/Ratio.hbc DOES exist...) The question is, why does running my factorial program trigger a Data.Ratio error? I think it's an installation problem, and it's probably related to the fact that... ... I can't really get most of the test suite to run. (Here is a link to the error output stream of runtests.py: http://www.updike.org/~jared/here/err.txt (164kB)) This is not "fairly trivial", this is disheartening. What am I missing? I will update the wiki when I get it working, if I can get some help with the path and directory scheme, environment variables, and other black magic. Jared. P.S. I am still really excited about YHC! -- jupdike@gmail.com http://www.updike.org/~jared/ reverse ")-:"