[jhc] [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: jhc-0.8.1

[Krzysztof Skrzętnicki]

I tried to compile from darcs repo, however I am unable to even run
./configure. 'autoreconf' returns an error:

autoreconf
configure.ac:17: error: required file 'ac-macros/compile' not found
configure.ac:17:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'compile'
configure.ac:13: error: required file 'ac-macros/config.guess' not found
configure.ac:13:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'config.guess'
configure.ac:13: error: required file 'ac-macros/config.sub' not found
configure.ac:13:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'config.sub'
configure.ac:5: error: required file 'ac-macros/install-sh' not found
configure.ac:5:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'install-sh'
configure.ac:5: error: required file 'ac-macros/missing' not found
configure.ac:5:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'missing'
parallel-tests: error: required file 'ac-macros/test-driver' not found
parallel-tests:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'test-driver'
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1

I don't know how to proceed.


On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:56 AM, John Meacham <john at repetae.net> wrote:

> I modified it so all packages depended on are listed in only a single
> spot in the configuration to make it easier to change and give much
> better error messages. see the new
> http://repetae.net/repos/jhc/configure.ac and the NEEDS_PACKAGE
> macros.
>
> Possibly existing instances are pretty easy to work around, see
> USE_MONOID_DOC in the config file. I'll make the show instance for
> identity conditionally defined too, since that seems to be floating
> around. Having to specify specific versions in the script would be
> hacky, much better to actually identify the reasons for
> incompatibility and choose based on that.
>
>     John
>
> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Krzysztof Skrzętnicki
> <gtener at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hmm, I'll give it a try, thanks!
> > As for the other errors for sure there is missing Binary instance for
> strict
> > ByteStrings in newest binary package.
> > Another one is instance for Show (Identity a) which in turn needed to be
> > commented out because it appeared in newer version of some other package,
> > don't know which one.
> > Lastly I get a lot of errors caused by mixing library versions. I *think*
> > that the problem is that, unlike Cabal, the Makefile specifies -package
> foo
> > without specific versions. The result is that, given the fact that I have
> > more than 1 version of many libraries installed, it tries to build with
> two
> > different versions of same library, or so would it seem: 1 is dependency
> of
> > other library, the other is from -package specification. I think this is
> the
> > case.
> > This is why I asked for specific versions of all the libraries involved.
> The
> > idea was to simply specify *all* of them on command line and/or Makefile.
> >
> > Right now I don't have time to replicate the errors, but I will try again
> > building jhc later.
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Krzysztof
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 5:09 AM, John Meacham <john at repetae.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Yeah, there was a bug in the way it detected editline/readline which
> >> has been fixed in the repo.
> >>
> >> You can run configure with --disable-line to work around it. or change
> >> the word USE_NOLINE to USE_READLINE in src/Util/Interact.hs
> >>
> >> always some silly typo that works its way in somewhere. I should stop
> >> the version number shift and declare it 1.0.0 and use the third digit
> >> for actual point releases rather than keep the perpetual 0.x.y wasting
> >> the first digit. but then I can't hide behind the 'beta' shield
> >> anymore. :)
> >>
> >>     John
> >>
> >> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Jens Petersen
> >> <juhp at community.haskell.org> wrote:
> >> > Thank you for the new release. :)
> >> >
> >> > On 13 May 2014 04:40, John Meacham <john at repetae.net> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> as for the packages i've been testing with
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> fgl,regex-compat,bytestring,binary,mtl,containers,unix,utf8-string,zlib,HsSyck,filepath,process,syb,old-time,pretty.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > and editline ?
> >> >
> >> > For me it fails to build on Fedora 20 with the readline package but
> >> > completes with editline.
> >> >
> >> > Krzysztof: maybe try removing or hiding the readline package or
> posting
> >> > your
> >> > build error. :)
> >> >
> >> > Jens
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> John Meacham - http://notanumber.net/
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> John Meacham - http://notanumber.net/
>
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