binary distribution problem

[Frederik Eaton]

Thanks Duncan, yes 'uname -a' shows i686. I was confused because the
cpu is EM46T, I don't know why uname does not say x86_64.

Yes, a better failure mode would indeed be helpful!

Frederik

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 08:38:57AM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 03:42 +0100, Frederik Eaton wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I found that the distribution at this URL
> > 
> > http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.6.1/ghc-6.6.1-x86_64-unknown-linux.tar.bz2
> > 
> > failed to install. There were lots of "no such file or directory"
> > errors during 'cp' invocations I think. The i386 version sems to work
> > fine. Hope this isn't a mistake on my part.
> 
> I found the opposite, that the i386 version had lots of errors with 'cp'
> invocations. It turned out that it was my fault as I was accidentally
> using the i386 .tar.tbz when the machine I was using was in fact an
> x86-64 running in 64bit mode.
> 
> So check your uname -a, is it i686 or x86_64?
> 
> That said, the failure mode in this case could be friendlier and less
> confusing.
> 
> Duncan
> 
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