failed when trying to compile FranTk with ghc

[Jan Kort]

luc wrote:
> 
> I tried FranTk with ghc 4.08 and got :
> (this is the "fixed" FrankTk, alledged working with 4.06, if im not
> wrong)
> 
> are there any difference with 4.06  and 4.08 ?

Below is a list of fixes to get FranTk working with ghc4.08.

  Jan

Run configure like normal, i.e.:
./configure --prefix=/scratch/kort/pkgs/frantk

Change the file FranTk/src/FranSrc/Compatibility.ghc.hs to
========================================================================
-- this module is for GHC; GSL
module Compatibility
       ( double2Float
       , yield
       , debugMsgLn
       , setDebug
       , mkWeakIORef
       , toInt
       , fromInt
       ) where
import GlaExts 
import NumExts(doubleToFloat)
import PrelRead(readDec)
import IOExts
import Concurrent
import Exception

double2Float = doubleToFloat

setDebug :: Bool -> IO ()
setDebug _ = return ()

debugMsgLn :: String -> IO ()
debugMsgLn s = assert (trace s `seq` True) $ return () 
========================================================================

In the file FranTk/src/FranTkSrc/Makefile change the line:
HC_OPTS+= -i../FranSrc:../TclHaskellSrc -fallow-overlapping-instances -fallow-undecidable-instances
-syslib misc 
to:
HC_OPTS+= -i../FranSrc:../TclHaskellSrc -fallow-overlapping-instances -fallow-undecidable-instances
-syslib data

In the file FranTk/demos/Makefile change the line:
HC_OPTS+= -i../src/FranTkSrc:../src/FranSrc:../src/TclHaskellSrc -fallow-overlapping-instances
-fallow-undecidable-instances -syslib misc
to:
HC_OPTS+= -i../src/FranTkSrc:../src/FranSrc:../src/TclHaskellSrc -fallow-overlapping-instances
-fallow-undecidable-instances -syslib data

If the compiler complains about not finding the file "tcl.h", in the
file FranTk/src/TclHaskellSrc/Makefile change the rule:
tclhaskell.o: tclhaskell.c tclhaskell.h
        $(HC) -c tclhaskell.c
to:
tclhaskell.o: tclhaskell.c tclhaskell.h
        $(HC) -I/opt/arch/lib/tk8.3/include -c tclhaskell.c
where /opt/arch... is the place "tcl.h" and "tk.h" are.

In the directory FranTk/src/TclHaskellSrc do:
rm *.hi *.o

In the file FranTk/src/TclHaskellSrc/Makefile add TclPrim.hs to
the HS_SRCS list.

In the directory FranTk/src/FranSrc do:
rm *.hi

In the directory FranTk/demos do:
rm *.hi

And then continue the normal installation with:
gmake boot
gmake all