build issue: * Missing header file: HsBase.h

[Simon Marlow]

On 10/12/2010 16:49, Karel Gardas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to recover my opensolaris builder machine after disk crash,
> but after reinstall I'm not able to build any GHC there. I'm trying head
> and now also 6.12.3 as a reference (as I'm able to build it on my
> workstation with the same OS). The problem I see here is when I invoke
> `gmake' then the process continues up to configuration of base library
> which fails with:
>
> checking value of ETIMEDOUT... 145
> checking value of ETOOMANYREFS... 144
> checking value of ETXTBSY... 26
> checking value of EUSERS... 94
> checking value of EWOULDBLOCK... 11
> checking value of EXDEV... 18
> checking value of ENOCIGAR... -1
> checking value of SIGINT... 2
> checking value of O_BINARY... 0
> checking for library containing iconv... none required
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating base.buildinfo
> config.status: creating include/HsBaseConfig.h
> configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-compiler
> ghc-cabal: Missing dependency on a foreign library:
> * Missing header file: HsBase.h
> This problem can usually be solved by installing the system package that
> provides this library (you may need the "-dev" version). If the library is
> already installed but in a non-standard location then you can use the flags
> --extra-include-dirs= and --extra-lib-dirs= to specify where it is.
> gmake[1]: *** [libraries/base/dist-install/package-data.mk] Error 1
> gmake: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
> The problem is HsBase.h is where it is on my reference build tree on
> workstation:
>
> -bash-4.0$ find . -name 'HsBase.h'
> ./libraries/base/include/HsBase.h
> -bash-4.0$
>
>
> I suppose some external library might be missing, but here the error is
> quite misleading and I cannot find which one might be the culprit of
> this error.
>
> Do you have any idea what to install in order to proceed?

I don't know what's going on here, I'm afraid.  Looks like Cabal tried 
to find HsBase.h and couldn't find it - so either it wasn't there (but 
you say it was), or Cabal was looking in the wrong place.  Maybe follow 
up the latter hypothesis?

Cheers,
	Simon