[Haskell-beginners] Trouble compiling haskell platfrom

[Jeff Lasslett]

Thanks.  That did the trick.

On 12 July 2012 06:48,  <gdweber at iue.edu> wrote:
> 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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