[Haskell-beginners] Haskell Platform: Troubleshooting package configuration errors?

[Mateusz Kowalczyk]

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On 14/06/13 21:22, egarrulo wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm trying to build the Haskell Platform 2013.2.0.0 (with required
> GHC 7.6.3) on Debian GNU/Linux 6 (AKA Debian Squeeze).
> 
> So far, I've stumbled upon some a few errors, but I've managed to
> solve them and I have let the maintainers know. Now I'm stuck with
> an error while configuring the "network" package (see the end of
> this email). As such error has no accompanying diagnostics, I don't
> know how I could fix it. Any suggestions? Thanks for your
> attention.
> 
> Have a nice day.
> 
> -- ERROR MESSAGE STARTS HERE -- 
> ************************************************** Building
> network-2.4.1.2 "/home/egarrulo/bin/ghc/ghc-7.6.3/bin/ghc" "--make"
> "Setup" "-o" "Setup" "-package" "Cabal-1.16.0" [1 of 1] Compiling
> Main             ( Setup.hs, Setup.o ) Linking Setup ... "./Setup"
> "configure" "--package-db=../../packages/package.conf.inplace" 
> "--prefix=/home/egarrulo/bin/haskell-platform/haskell-platform-2013.2.0.0"
>  "--with-compiler=/home/egarrulo/bin/ghc/ghc-7.6.3/bin/ghc" 
> "--with-hc-pkg=/home/egarrulo/bin/ghc/ghc-7.6.3/bin/ghc-pkg" 
> "--with-hsc2hs=/home/egarrulo/bin/ghc/ghc-7.6.3/bin/hsc2hs" 
> "--with-happy=../happy-1.18.10/dist/build/happy/happy" 
> "--happy-options=--template=../happy-1.18.10" 
> "--with-alex=../alex-3.0.5/dist/build/alex/alex" 
> "--enable-library-profiling" 
> "--ghc-pkg-option=--package-conf=../../packages/package.conf.inplace"
>  "--user" Configuring network-2.4.1.2...
> 
> Error: Configuring the network-2.4.1.2 package failed make: ***
> [build.stamp] Error 2
> 
> -- ERROR MESSAGE ENDS HERE --
> 
> 
> 
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I think that the next logical step would be to configure the network
package by hand and see what error comes up. `cabal unpack network'
followed by `cabal configure' in the relevant directory should
hopefully provide a more meaningful error.

- -- 
Mateusz K.
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