[Haskell-cafe] building the unix package and cabal

Thomas Schilling nominolo at googlemail.com
Mon Feb 4 10:53:09 EST 2008


This is the GNU Multi-Precision library.  You have to install that
separately, Cabal can't do that for you.  You should use the redhat
package manager to install it. HTH

On Feb 4, 2008 4:43 PM, Galchin Vasili <vigalchin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
>     Have you tried to build this package yourself? I get a linker error ..
> unresolved symbol "gmp".
>
> Vasili
>
>
>
>
> On 2/4/08, Thomas Schilling <nominolo at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Build-type: Configure means that *Cabal uses ./configure * to build
> > the package.  Nothing changes for you.  Just use the usual:
> >
> > runhaskell Setup.hs configure --prefix=... [--user]
> > runhaskell Setup.hs build
> > runhaskell Setup.hs install
> >
> > or with cabal-install:
> >
> > cabal install unix
> >
> > 2008/2/4 Galchin Vasili <vigalchin at gmail.com>:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >       I have been trying to build the unix package on RedHat RHEL 5.
> Over
> > > the weekend I read through the Cabal documentation. The unix-2.2.0.0
> > > unix.cabal specifies the "build-type" attribute as "Configure". Based on
> > > Cabal doc, I should run ./configure. After this step then what? Bottom
> line
> > > is how do I build the unix-2.2.0.0 package on RHEL 5?
> > >
> > > Thank you, Vasili
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