[Haskell-iPhone] Installing ghc-iphone from source

[Stephen Blackheath [to GHC-iPhone]]

Tom,

To answer all your questions...

> It says that GHC-6.10.4 is required to build GHC-iPhone 6.10.4.
> Is it exactly 6.10.4, or at least 6.10.4? I just upgraded to 7.0.2.
> Tom

I wish. :)  It has to be exactly 6.10.4.

> Also, I know that this is a newbie question, but when you refer to,
> say, "Remove extraneous stuff from your PATH.", what exactly is the
> PATH? Any place where we want to have ghc-iphone from?

PATH is the shell environment variable of that name.  To see what it's
set to, type this:

echo $PATH

Basically the command you want to type is something like this:

export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

That is, you need to remove any junk that's been added, like MacPorts
and so on.  MacPorts is 100% guaranteed to make it not work.

> "cat ../ghc-iphone.patch | patch -p0"
> still doesn't work. There is no file "ghc-iphone.patch" among those I
> downloaded for this.

That instruction is a little out-of-date.  The single patch has been
split up into multiple patches and put into the 'patch.snowleopard'
directory.  So the command you will want is something like:

cd ghc-6.10.4
cat ../patch.snowleopard/*.patch | patch -p1

The number after 'p' is how many directories to strip off the filenames
referenced in the patch.  If you're inside ghc-6.10.4 then it should be 1.


Steve

On 09/03/11 14:09, Tom Murphy wrote:
> Also, the line
> "cat ../ghc-iphone.patch | patch -p0"
> still doesn't work. There is no file "ghc-iphone.patch" among those I
> downloaded for this.
> 
> 
> Other tries which failed:
> "cat ../patch.snowleopard/ | patch -p0"
> "cat ../patch.snowleopard/*.patch | patch -p0"
> "cat ../patch.snowleopard/01-makefiles-general.patch | patch -p0" (for example)
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> Tom
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Tom Murphy <amindfv at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Also, I know that this is a newbie question, but when you refer to,
>> say, "Remove extraneous stuff from your PATH.", what exactly is the
>> PATH? Any place where we want to have ghc-iphone from?
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Tom Murphy <amindfv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> It says that GHC-6.10.4 is required to build GHC-iPhone 6.10.4.
>>> Is it exactly 6.10.4, or at least 6.10.4? I just upgraded to 7.0.2.
>>> Tom
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Stephen Blackheath [to GHC-iPhone] <likeliest.complexions.stephen at blacksapphire.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> William,
>>>>
>>>> 1. Take the patches from here...
>>>>
>>>> http://projects.haskell.org/ghc-iphone/downloads/patch.snowleopard/
>>>>
>>>> 2. Read the README.SnowLeopard file.
>>>>
>>>> 3. Then install according to the instructions in GHC-iPhone.pdf (which
>>>> is a little old), except that you use ghc version 6.10.4 in all cases.
>>>>
>>>> config-iphone.sh is created by applying the patches.
>>>>
>>>> http://projects.haskell.org/ghc-iphone/downloads/GHC-iPhone.pdf
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>>>>
>>>> On 08/03/11 18:12, william murphy wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>      We've been trying to install ghc-iphone, based on the 30 Apr 2010
>>>>> installation and user's guide.
>>>>>
>>>>>      Installing from source came to a screeching halt at step 5:
>>>>>           - "ghc-iphone.patch" and
>>>>>           - "ghc-iphone-simulator" and
>>>>>           - "config-iphone.sh"
>>>>>      don't exist in anything we've downloaded.
>>>>>
>>>>> We installed everything in the source instructions, plus
>>>>> "ghc-iphone.tar.bz2".
>>>>>
>>>>> This manual seems in need of a revision. I would be glad to help update it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Tom
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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