[Haskell-cafe] [xmonad] Cabal install problem

[Brent Yorgey]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:30:08AM +0300, Tayfur Yilmaz wrote:
> > >
> > > Quoting Tayfur Yilmaz <yilmaz.tayfur at gmail.com>:
> > >
> > > >Hi everyone
> > > >I have some problem for install 'cabal-install package'  I downloaded
> > and
> > > >succesfully build a binary source ghc-7.0.2. Then I want to install
> > > >cabal-0.10.2 and ? see some warning and last output like this
> > > >Linking Setup ...
> > > >Configuring Cabal-1.10.1.0...
> > > >Setup: At least the following dependencies are missing:
> > > >base >=4 && <3 && >=2 && <5, unix >=2.0 && <2.5
> > > >
> > > >Error during cabal-install bootstrap:
> > > >Configuring the Cabal package failed
> > > >
> > > >Then ? want to use cabal-0.8 and output like this
> > > >Linking Setup ...
> > > >Configuring Cabal-1.8.0.2...
> > > >Setup: At least the following dependencies are missing:
> > > >base >=4 && <3 && >=1 && <5,
> > > >filepath >=1 && <1.2,
> > > >unix >=2.1 && <2.5
> > > >
> > > >Error during cabal-install bootstrap:
> > > >Configuring the Cabal package failed
> > > >
> > > >So Which compatible versiyon for cabal-install version I use Kde4 on
> > > >Pardus<http://www.pardus.org.tr/>
> > > >
> > > >Best Regards
> 
> Can someone describe install packages sort list..
> I read some document and
> 1.Firstly ı download a binary version  of Ghc (version 7.0.2)
> (bootstrap.py)

bootstrap.py?  There should not be any python scripts involved in
installing a binary version of GHC.  Where did you download it from?

After installing it, does it work?  If you type ghci at a command
prompt, what happens?


-Brent

> 2. cabal-install package download and install bu I send this bug
> 
> And now I want to build hackage platform
> 
> Command
>   $ sudo ./configure
> Output
> **************************************************
> *
> *     Haskell Platform Source Installer
> *
> *     For the Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1 and GHC 7.0.3
> *
> **************************************************
> checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> *checking for ghc... notfound*
> configure: error:
>   This installer for the Haskell Platform requires ghc to be installed first
> *  If ghc is installed not on the PATH then use --with-ghc= and
> --with-ghc-pkg=*
> Command
>  $ sudo ./configure --with-ghc= --with-ghc-pkg=
> Output
> **************************************************
> *
> *     Haskell Platform Source Installer
> *
> *     For the Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1 and GHC 7.0.3
> *
> **************************************************
> checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> *checking for hsc2hs... notfound*
> configure: error: The hsc2hs program could not be found.
>   It is usually installed along with ghc. You may need to specify
> --with-hsc2hs=
> 
> Command
> sudo ./configure --with-ghc= --with-ghc-pkg= --with-hsc2hs=
> Output
> **************************************************
> *
> *     Haskell Platform Source Installer
> *
> *     For the Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1 and GHC 7.0.3
> *
> **************************************************
> checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking version of ghc...
> *configure: error:  does not seem to work (or maybe it is not actually ghc).
> *
> 
> 
> I build ghc binary and why I can't solve this problems.