[Haskell-cafe] problem building lambdabot

[Michael Vanier]

OK, Stefan was right.  The arrows package is an extension of Control.Arrow, not a from-scratch 
implementation.  The name confused me.  Perhaps a better name would be "arrows-ext" or something 
like that.

Mike

Michael Vanier wrote:
> Thanks, but this doesn't answer the question.  I can load up the 
> Control.Arrow module fine in ghci.  Is there a problem with the 
> packaging information?
> 
> I did a google search, and this problem has come up on IRC, but nobody 
> figured out what was causing it as far as I can tell.
> 
> Mike
> 
> Stefan O'Rear wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 06:57:25PM -0700, Michael Vanier wrote:
>>> When I try to build lambdabot, I get this:
>>>
>>> Configuring lambdabot-4.0...
>>> configure: Dependency base-any: using base-2.1.1
>>> configure: Dependency unix-any: using unix-2.1
>>> configure: Dependency network-any: using network-2.0.1
>>> configure: Dependency parsec-any: using parsec-2.0
>>> configure: Dependency mtl-any: using mtl-1.0.1
>>> configure: Dependency haskell-src-any: using haskell-src-1.0.1
>>> configure: Dependency readline-any: using readline-1.0
>>> configure: Dependency QuickCheck-any: using QuickCheck-1.0.1
>>> Setup.hs: cannot satisfy dependency arrows-any
>>>
>>> I'm using ghc 6.6.1 compiled from source (by me) on Debian Linux.  I 
>>> thought that arrows were included with the ghc distribution.  Does 
>>> anyone know what's happening and how to fix it?
>>
>> I don't know what's happening, but you can get arrows easily enough from
>> http://hackage.haskell.org (our CPAN).
>>
>> Stefan
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