[Haskell-beginners] can't make distribution, requires rerunning ./configure

[Josh Stratton]

Redhat Enterprise 6.


On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Hollister Herhold <hollister at fafoh.com>wrote:

>
> What distro are you running?
>
>
> On Apr 2, 2013, at 11:16 AM, Josh Stratton wrote:
>
> Downloading the platform, it says it needs to have ghc already installed.
>  Am I really the only one hitting this issue?
>
> It's erroring out here...
>
> ifeq "$(findstring clean,$(MAKECMDGOALS))" ""
> include mk/config.mk
> ifeq "$(ProjectVersion)" ""
> $(error Please run ./configure first)
> endif
> endif
>
> But I don't where this ProjectVersion is being set...
>
> > grep ProjectVersion *
> ghc.mk:ifeq "$(ProjectVersion)" ""
> ghc.mk:SRC_DIST_BASE_NAME = ghc-$(ProjectVersion)
> ghc.mk:SRC_DIST_GHC_NAME          = ghc-$(ProjectVersion)-src
> ghc.mk:SRC_DIST_TESTSUITE_NAME    = ghc-$(ProjectVersion)-testsuite
> ghc.mk: echo $(ProjectVersion) >VERSION
> ghc.mk: tar tjf $(SRC_DIST_GHC_TARBALL) | sed
> "s|^ghc-$(ProjectVersion)/||" | sort >sdist-manifest
> ghc.mk:SRC_CC_OPTS += -D__GLASGOW_HASKELL__=$(ProjectVersionInt)
> Makefile:ifeq "$(ProjectVersion)" ""
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 5:38 AM, Hollister Herhold <hollister at fafoh.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> (Coming from a Haskell newbie who has both used the Haskell Platform and
>> built ghc from scratch-)
>>
>> You want the Haskell Platform. It comes with a bunch of useful libraries
>> in addition to ghc. If you're a beginner, it will do everything you need
>> for quite a while.
>>
>> Once you get used to using ghc and cabal and such, you can "upgrade" to
>> the latest ghc (or the development head, if you're a bleeding-edge kind of
>> person).
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 29, 2013, at 7:31 AM, Josh Stratton wrote:
>>
>> Maybe I'm confused, but I did download the binary package.  That's the
>> one I can't install.  I downloaded the binary package and followed the
>> steps in the INSTALL file which included running the configure step (with
>> an optional prefix) and "make install".  I don't think it's actually
>> building ghc.  I can try the haskell platform to see what happens.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Karl Voelker <ktvoelker at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> This isn't exactly an answer to your question, but have you considered
>>> using the Haskell Platform (which is recommended for most purposes) or a
>>> GHC binary package?
>>>
>>> http://www.haskell.org/platform/
>>> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_7_6_2#binaries
>>>
>>> -Karl
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Josh Stratton <strattonbrazil at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>>  I recently downloaded the ghc distribution for Linux (x86_64) and had
>>>> difficulty installing to my machine.  The configure step seems to have
>>>> completed successfully, but when I run the followup "make install", it
>>>> fails suggesting that I haven't run the configure command yet.
>>>>
>>>> atlas => ./configure --prefix=/opt/ghc
>>>> checking for path to top of build tree... /tmp/ghc-7.6.2
>>>> Build platform inferred as: x86_64-unknown-linux
>>>> Host platform inferred as: x86_64-unknown-linux
>>>> Target platform inferred as: x86_64-unknown-linux
>>>> GHC build  : x86_64-unknown-linux
>>>> GHC host   : x86_64-unknown-linux
>>>> GHC target : x86_64-unknown-linux
>>>> checking for perl... /rel/map/generic-2012.18.last/bin/perl
>>>> checking if your perl works in shell scripts... yes
>>>> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>>>> checking whether ln -s works... yes
>>>> checking for gsed... sed
>>>> checking for gcc... /usr/bin/gcc
>>>> checking for gcc... /usr/bin/gcc
>>>> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
>>>> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
>>>> checking for suffix of executables...
>>>> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
>>>> checking for suffix of object files... o
>>>> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
>>>> checking whether /usr/bin/gcc accepts -g... yes
>>>> checking for /usr/bin/gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
>>>> checking version of gcc... 4.4.6
>>>> checking how to run the C preprocessor... /usr/bin/gcc -E
>>>> checking whether ld understands --hash-size=31...
>>>> checking whether ld understands --reduce-memory-overheads...
>>>> checking for extra options to pass gcc when compiling via C...  -fwrapv
>>>> checking Setting up CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, IGNORE_LINKER_LD_FLAGS and
>>>> CPPFLAGS... done
>>>> checking Setting up CONF_CC_OPTS_STAGE0, CONF_GCC_LINKER_OPTS_STAGE0,
>>>> CONF_LD_LINKER_OPTS_STAGE0 and CONF_CPP_OPTS_STAGE0... done
>>>> checking Setting up CONF_CC_OPTS_STAGE1, CONF_GCC_LINKER_OPTS_STAGE1,
>>>> CONF_LD_LINKER_OPTS_STAGE1 and CONF_CPP_OPTS_STAGE1... done
>>>> checking Setting up CONF_CC_OPTS_STAGE2, CONF_GCC_LINKER_OPTS_STAGE2,
>>>> CONF_LD_LINKER_OPTS_STAGE2 and CONF_CPP_OPTS_STAGE2... done
>>>> checking for .subsections_via_symbols... no
>>>> checking whether your assembler supports .ident directive... yes
>>>> checking for GNU non-executable stack support... yes
>>>> checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
>>>> checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
>>>> checking for ANSI C header files... yes
>>>> checking for sys/types.h... yes
>>>> checking for sys/stat.h... yes
>>>> checking for stdlib.h... yes
>>>> checking for string.h... yes
>>>> checking for memory.h... yes
>>>> checking for strings.h... yes
>>>> checking for inttypes.h... yes
>>>> checking for stdint.h... yes
>>>> checking for unistd.h... yes
>>>> checking size of void *... 8
>>>> checking for ar... /usr/bin/ar
>>>> checking whether /usr/bin/ar is GNU ar... yes
>>>> checking for ar arguments... q
>>>> checking whether ranlib is needed... no
>>>> configure: creating ./config.status
>>>> config.status: creating settings
>>>> config.status: creating mk/config.mk
>>>> config.status: creating mk/install.mk
>>>> ****************************************************
>>>> Configuration done, ready to 'make install'
>>>> (see README and INSTALL files for more info.)
>>>> ****************************************************
>>>>
>>>>                                                                 atlas =>
>>>> make install
>>>> make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk install BINDIST=YES
>>>> NO_INCLUDE_DEPS=YES
>>>> ghc.mk:122: *** Please run ./configure first.  Stop.
>>>> make: *** [install] Error 2
>>>>
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