[Haskell-cafe] install problems ...

[Duncan Coutts]

On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 23:50 -0500, Vasili I. Galchin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>   As I have said before I a, "cabalizing" Swish (a semantic web
> toolkit). I have it built and have run most of the original author's
> tests by and they pass. There are numerous warnings which seem to be
> either lack of a function type signature or "unreferenced" symbols ...
> I will go through one-by-one and clean these up. However, now I am
> getting the following install-time errors .... any advice on how to
> track down will be greatly apprecriated .... the following is the
> result of "cabal build -v":
> 
> Preprocessing executables for swish-0.2.1...
> Building swish-0.2.1...
> /usr/bin/ar: creating dist/build/libHSswish-0.2.1.a
> Warning: output was redirected with -o, but no output will be
> generated because there is no Main module.

This warning is very suspicious. Perhaps you can post your .cabal file.
I suspect that it's using an inappropriate ghc flag.

Duncan