[Haskell-beginners] Trouble compiling haskell platfrom

[gdweber at iue.edu]

Hi,

On 2012-Jul-11, Jeff Lasslett wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm trying to recompile & reinstall the haskell platform 12.2.0.0.  I
> have installed it successfully on a prior occasion  but I decided to
> reinstall as I think I may have messed up my installed packages a bit
> while playing around with yesod.   I intend to use cabal-dev or
> virtualenv for that in future.
> 
> So I thought I'd do a clean install.  I blew away my haskell platform
> and ghc, both of which were installed in a dir under my home dir.  I
> also blew away my ~/.cabal/ dir.
> 
> I then reinstalled by ghc 7.4.1 into ~/prg/haskell-platform-12.2.0.0.
> 
> I then unpacked the sources of haskell-platform-12.2.0.0 and
> configured it with the prefix set to where ghc is.
> 
> configure finished without error so I ran 'make'.  It quits with what
> follows.  How do I fix this??
> 
> With thanks,
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> 
> * Now do "make" followed by "make install"
> **************************************************
> jeff at chunks:~/src/haskell-platform-2012.2.0.0$ make
> scripts/build.sh
> **************************************************
> Scanning system for any installed Haskell Platform components...
> 
> Found: HUnit-1.2.4.2 OpenGL-2.2.3.1 GLUT-2.1.2.1 html-1.0.1.2
> parallel-3.2.0.2 random-1.0.1.1 QuickCheck-2.4.2 stm-2.3 syb-0.3.6.1
> haskell-src-1.0.1.5 text-0.11.2.0 transformers-0.3.0.0 mtl-2.1.1
> fgl-5.4.2.4 parsec-3.1.2 network-2.3.0.13 HTTP-4000.2.3
> regex-base-0.93.2 regex-posix-0.95.1 regex-compat-0.95.1
> xhtml-3000.2.1 cgi-3001.1.7.4 zlib-0.5.3.3 haskell-platform-2012.2.0.0
> 
> New packages to install: None! All done.
> 
> **************************************************
> Building alex-3.0.1
> "/home/jeff/prg/haskell-platform-12.2.0.0/bin/ghc" "--make" "Setup"
> "-o" "Setup" "-package" "Cabal-1.14.0"
> Linking Setup ...
> "./Setup" "configure"
> "--package-db=../../packages/package.conf.inplace"
> "--prefix=/home/jeff/prg/haskell-platform-12.2.0.0"
> "--with-compiler=/home/jeff/prg/haskell-platform-12.2.0.0/bin/ghc"
> "--with-hc-pkg=/home/jeff/prg/haskell-platform-12.2.0.0/bin/ghc-pkg"
> "--with-hsc2hs=/home/jeff/prg/haskell-platform-12.2.0.0/bin/hsc2hs"
> "--enable-library-profiling"
> "--ghc-pkg-option=--package-conf=../../packages/package.conf.inplace"
> "--user"
> Warning: defaultUserHooks in Setup script is deprecated.
> Configuring alex-3.0.1...
> "./Setup" "build"
> Building alex-3.0.1...
> Preprocessing executable 'alex' for alex-3.0.1...
> 
> src/Data/Ranged/RangedSet.hs:64:8:
>     Could not find module `Test.QuickCheck'
>     There are files missing in the `QuickCheck-2.4.2' package,
>     try running 'ghc-pkg check'.
>     Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.

I would suggest start by doing what it says just above: 
run `ghc-pkg check`.

This will give you a list of broken packages.
For each such package `P`, run `ghc-pkg unregister P`.

Then you can try installing Haskell Platform again,
starting with the configure step.

For a detailed explanation of what's going on here,
see Albert Lai's "Storage and Identification of Cabalized Packages":

    http://www.vex.net/~trebla/haskell/sicp.xhtml


> 
> Error:
> Building the alex-3.0.1 package failed
> make: *** [build.stamp] Error 2
> 
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