building against gmp in a nonstandard location

[Ian Lynagh]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 01:29:26PM -0400, Paul Jarc wrote:
> Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li> wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:05:03AM -0400, Paul Jarc wrote:
> 
> >> Second attempt: CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS and mk/build.mk as above, and I also
> >> gave --with-gmp-{includes,libraries} to ./configure.  This ends with
> >> the same error.
> >
> > What happens if you only use the flags?
> 
> Do you mean CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, without putting anything in
> mk/build.mk or specifying --with-gmp-*?  That fails here:

Sorry, I meant --with-gmp-{includes,libraries}.

> if ifBuildable/ifBuildable hpc; then \
>            cd hpc && setup/Setup makefile -f GNUmakefile; \
>         fi
> In file included from /fs/pkgs/mount/package/host/code.dogmap.org/foreign/ghc-6.8.2+spf+3/compile/src/ghc-6.8.2/includes/Stg.h:150,
>                  from /fs/pkgs/mount/package/host/code.dogmap.org/foreign/ghc-6.8.2+spf+3/compile/src/ghc-6.8.2/includes/Rts.h:19,
>                  from Reflect.hsc:18:
> /fs/pkgs/mount/package/host/code.dogmap.org/foreign/ghc-6.8.2+spf+3/compile/src/ghc-6.8.2/includes/Regs.h:28:17: error: gmp.h: No such file or directory
> 
> This seems to be coming from an invocation of hsc2hs

I think this is something we fixed in the 6.8 darcs branch since
releasing 6.8.2. Try building a recent 6.8 branch snapshot instead:
    http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/


Thanks
Ian