[Haskell-beginners] Happstack dependency problems

[Antoine Latter]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Antoine Latter <aslatter at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Tom Murphy <amindfv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I get the "cannot configure unix" error for:
>> - happstack-util
>> - happstack-state
>> - happstack-ixset
>> - happstack-server
>> - happstack
>> In other words, everything except happstack-data.
>>
>
> Well, happstack-util is a dependency for the rest of the packages you
> listed, so you might be better off focusing your efforts there.
>
> It requires unix-compat to build. What does "cabal install
> unix-compat" give you?
>
> If that's what's breaking you can try "cabal install
> unix-compat-0.1.2.1" and then "cabal install happstack-util". Version
> 0.1.2.1 appears to be the most recent version of unix-compat that
> doesn't specify version bounds on the unix package, which is what
> you're having trouble with.
>
> If it works let us know.
>
> Antoine
>
>> Thanks for the help!
>> Tom
>

Also, I'm pretty confused by all of this - unix-2.4.0.0 should build
on GCH 6.10. Folks have been saying they've had bad luck installing it
separate from a GHC install, though, so I don't know if I should
recommend it.

Antoine