[Haskell-cafe] lambdabot hoogle

[Mark Wright]

On Wed, 25 May 2011 02:20:39 +0200, Jacek Generowicz <jacek.generowicz at cern.ch> wrote:
> I have recenly installed lambdabot. Its response to *each* *and*  
> *every* hoogle command is *always*
> 
>      A Hoogle error occurred.
> 
> I'm hoping that someone on Cafe might be able to offer a more helpful  
> diagnosis than this ... erm ... terse ... error message.

Hi Jacek,

The lambdabot hoogle command requires hoogle to be installed locally,
and to work.  Hence the first thing to ty is to run the hoogle command
line version, something like:

hoogle '[a] -> a'

If that doesn't work, maybe try building some hoogle databases.  One way to
do that is to run (on gentoo this needs to be run as root):

hoogle data

And if that works, to try it again:

hoogle '[a] -> a'

And if all that works hopefully it should work in lambdabot.  It
works in the gentoo-haskell overlay.

Regards, Mark