[jhc] [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: jhc-0.8.1

[John Meacham]

autoreconf -i

-i installs anything needed that is missing.

    John

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 4:06 AM, Krzysztof Skrzętnicki <gtener at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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