[Haskell-cafe] Error building Edison 1.2.0.1

[Robert Dockins]

On Thursday 05 October 2006 16:51, Lyle Kopnicky wrote:
> Robert Dockins wrote:
> > On Wednesday 04 October 2006 16:16, Lyle Kopnicky wrote:
> >> Robert Dockins wrote:
> >>> Whats the output of
> >>>
> >>> ghc-pkg -l
> >>>
> >>> ?
> >>
> >> lwk at lwk-desktop:~$ ghc-pkg -l
> >> /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.5.20060924/package.conf:
> >>     Cabal-1.1.4, base-2.0, (ghc-6.5.20060924), haskell98-1.0,
> >>     parsec-2.0, readline-1.0, regex-base-0.71, regex-compat-0.71,
> >>     regex-posix-0.71, rts-1.0, stm-2.0, template-haskell-2.0, unix-1.0
> >> l
> >
> > Hummm.  Well, I confess that I'm confused.  Cabal 1.1.4 should work,
> > because that's what I have on my machines; I've just tested it here.  The
> > only thing I can think of is that the 'runhaskell' command is still bound
> > to your old GHC, or to something else (Hugs maybe?).  If that's the case,
> > you can edit the makefile and set the 'RUNHS' variable in the first line
> > to the full path to your 6.5 runghc.  Or you can edit the .cabal files as
> > suggested above.
>
> I don't have hugs installed, and I've uninstalled ghc 6.4.1, so it can
> only be running 6.5.
>
> I've pasted the error in again here for reference:
> > lwk at lwk-desktop:~/devel/edison-1.2.0.1-source$ sudo make system
> > Password:
> > cd edison-api && \
> >           runhaskell Setup.hs configure && \
> >           runhaskell Setup.hs build && \
> >           runhaskell Setup.hs install
> > Configuring EdisonAPI-1.2...
> > configure: Dependency base>=1.0: using base-2.0
> > configure: Dependency haskell98>=1.0: using haskell98-1.0
> > Setup.hs: cannot satisfy dependency mtl>=1.0
> > make: *** [api-system] Error 1
> > lwk at lwk-desktop:~/devel/edison-1.2.0.1-source$
>
> Do you know what mtl is?

mtl is the Monad Transformer Library.  It's a part of the standard libraries 
in 6.4.x.  There's been a good deal of chatter recently about reducing the 
set of libraries the GHC ships with; it may be that mtl is on that list.  I 
haven't really been following, so I'm not sure.

> Maybe there's something broken in this GHC 
> snapshot. I've already noticed Template Haskell seems to be broken in it.

Possible.  I also notice that QuickCheck isn't in your list of installed 
packages.  You'll need that to compile edison-core.



> - Lyle

-- 
Rob Dockins

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