[Haskell-beginners] can't make distribution, requires rerunning ./configure

Emmanuel Touzery etouzery at gmail.com
Thu Apr 4 06:51:52 CEST 2013 

I have never tried anything like that, but it seems rpm may let you install
it under your home directory, maybe it's worth a shot:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-install-rpm-package-into-another-directory/

http://osdir.com/ml/lang.haskell.fedora/2005-05/msg00007.html
On 3 Apr 2013 23:18, "Josh Stratton" <strattonbrazil at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not a dumb question, but I don't have root priveledges on this machine and
> wanted to investigate it without a formal install.
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Hollister Herhold <hollister at fafoh.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> Sorry if this is a dumb question - did you try the rpm from rpmfind?
>>
>>
>> On Apr 3, 2013, at 11:30 AM, Josh Stratton wrote:
>>
>> Redhat Enterprise 6.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Hollister Herhold <hollister at fafoh.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> What distro are you running?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 2, 2013, at 11:16 AM, Josh Stratton wrote:
>>>
>>> Downloading the platform, it says it needs to have ghc already
>>> installed.  Am I really the only one hitting this issue?
>>>
>>> It's erroring out here...
>>>
>>> ifeq "$(findstring clean,$(MAKECMDGOALS))" ""
>>> include mk/config.mk
>>> ifeq "$(ProjectVersion)" ""
>>> $(error Please run ./configure first)
>>> endif
>>> endif
>>>
>>> But I don't where this ProjectVersion is being set...
>>>
>>> > grep ProjectVersion *
>>> ghc.mk:ifeq "$(ProjectVersion)" ""
>>> ghc.mk:SRC_DIST_BASE_NAME = ghc-$(ProjectVersion)
>>> ghc.mk:SRC_DIST_GHC_NAME          = ghc-$(ProjectVersion)-src
>>> ghc.mk:SRC_DIST_TESTSUITE_NAME    = ghc-$(ProjectVersion)-testsuite
>>> ghc.mk: echo $(ProjectVersion) >VERSION
>>> ghc.mk: tar tjf $(SRC_DIST_GHC_TARBALL) | sed
>>> "s|^ghc-$(ProjectVersion)/||" | sort >sdist-manifest
>>> ghc.mk:SRC_CC_OPTS += -D__GLASGOW_HASKELL__=$(ProjectVersionInt)
>>> Makefile:ifeq "$(ProjectVersion)" ""
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 5:38 AM, Hollister Herhold <hollister at fafoh.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> (Coming from a Haskell newbie who has both used the Haskell Platform
>>>> and built ghc from scratch-)
>>>>
>>>> You want the Haskell Platform. It comes with a bunch of useful
>>>> libraries in addition to ghc. If you're a beginner, it will do everything
>>>> you need for quite a while.
>>>>
>>>> Once you get used to using ghc and cabal and such, you can "upgrade" to
>>>> the latest ghc (or the development head, if you're a bleeding-edge kind of
>>>> person).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 29, 2013, at 7:31 AM, Josh Stratton wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Maybe I'm confused, but I did download the binary package.  That's the
>>>> one I can't install.  I downloaded the binary package and followed the
>>>> steps in the INSTALL file which included running the configure step (with
>>>> an optional prefix) and "make install".  I don't think it's actually
>>>> building ghc.  I can try the haskell platform to see what happens.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Karl Voelker <ktvoelker at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This isn't exactly an answer to your question, but have you considered
>>>>> using the Haskell Platform (which is recommended for most purposes) or a
>>>>> GHC binary package?
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.haskell.org/platform/
>>>>> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_7_6_2#binaries
>>>>>
>>>>> -Karl
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Josh Stratton <
>>>>> strattonbrazil at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>  I recently downloaded the ghc distribution for Linux (x86_64) and
>>>>>> had difficulty installing to my machine.  The configure step seems to have
>>>>>> completed successfully, but when I run the followup "make install", it
>>>>>> fails suggesting that I haven't run the configure command yet.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> atlas => ./configure --prefix=/opt/ghc
>>>>>> checking for path to top of build tree... /tmp/ghc-7.6.2
>>>>>> Build platform inferred as: x86_64-unknown-linux
>>>>>> Host platform inferred as: x86_64-unknown-linux
>>>>>> Target platform inferred as: x86_64-unknown-linux
>>>>>> GHC build  : x86_64-unknown-linux
>>>>>> GHC host   : x86_64-unknown-linux
>>>>>> GHC target : x86_64-unknown-linux
>>>>>> checking for perl... /rel/map/generic-2012.18.last/bin/perl
>>>>>> checking if your perl works in shell scripts... yes
>>>>>> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>>>>>> checking whether ln -s works... yes
>>>>>> checking for gsed... sed
>>>>>> checking for gcc... /usr/bin/gcc
>>>>>> checking for gcc... /usr/bin/gcc
>>>>>> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
>>>>>> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
>>>>>> checking for suffix of executables...
>>>>>> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
>>>>>> checking for suffix of object files... o
>>>>>> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
>>>>>> checking whether /usr/bin/gcc accepts -g... yes
>>>>>> checking for /usr/bin/gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
>>>>>> checking version of gcc... 4.4.6
>>>>>> checking how to run the C preprocessor... /usr/bin/gcc -E
>>>>>> checking whether ld understands --hash-size=31...
>>>>>> checking whether ld understands --reduce-memory-overheads...
>>>>>> checking for extra options to pass gcc when compiling via C...
>>>>>>  -fwrapv
>>>>>> checking Setting up CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, IGNORE_LINKER_LD_FLAGS and
>>>>>> CPPFLAGS... done
>>>>>> checking Setting up CONF_CC_OPTS_STAGE0, CONF_GCC_LINKER_OPTS_STAGE0,
>>>>>> CONF_LD_LINKER_OPTS_STAGE0 and CONF_CPP_OPTS_STAGE0... done
>>>>>> checking Setting up CONF_CC_OPTS_STAGE1, CONF_GCC_LINKER_OPTS_STAGE1,
>>>>>> CONF_LD_LINKER_OPTS_STAGE1 and CONF_CPP_OPTS_STAGE1... done
>>>>>> checking Setting up CONF_CC_OPTS_STAGE2, CONF_GCC_LINKER_OPTS_STAGE2,
>>>>>> CONF_LD_LINKER_OPTS_STAGE2 and CONF_CPP_OPTS_STAGE2... done
>>>>>> checking for .subsections_via_symbols... no
>>>>>> checking whether your assembler supports .ident directive... yes
>>>>>> checking for GNU non-executable stack support... yes
>>>>>> checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
>>>>>> checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
>>>>>> checking for ANSI C header files... yes
>>>>>> checking for sys/types.h... yes
>>>>>> checking for sys/stat.h... yes
>>>>>> checking for stdlib.h... yes
>>>>>> checking for string.h... yes
>>>>>> checking for memory.h... yes
>>>>>> checking for strings.h... yes
>>>>>> checking for inttypes.h... yes
>>>>>> checking for stdint.h... yes
>>>>>> checking for unistd.h... yes
>>>>>> checking size of void *... 8
>>>>>> checking for ar... /usr/bin/ar
>>>>>> checking whether /usr/bin/ar is GNU ar... yes
>>>>>> checking for ar arguments... q
>>>>>> checking whether ranlib is needed... no
>>>>>> configure: creating ./config.status
>>>>>> config.status: creating settings
>>>>>> config.status: creating mk/config.mk
>>>>>> config.status: creating mk/install.mk
>>>>>> ****************************************************
>>>>>> Configuration done, ready to 'make install'
>>>>>> (see README and INSTALL files for more info.)
>>>>>> ****************************************************
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                                                                   atlas =>
>>>>>> make install
>>>>>> make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk install BINDIST=YES
>>>>>> NO_INCLUDE_DEPS=YES
>>>>>> ghc.mk:122: *** Please run ./configure first.  Stop.
>>>>>> make: *** [install] Error 2
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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