Fwd: Report this to bug-autoconf@gnu.org

[Simon Marlow]

Forwarding to list on behalf of "Marek Burza" <mkburza at gmail.com>.

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Marek Burza" <mkburza at gmail.com <mailto:mkburza at gmail.com>>
> To: libraries at haskell.org <mailto:libraries at haskell.org>
> Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 09:50:23 +0200
> Subject: Fwd: Report this to bug-autoconf at gnu.org 
> <mailto:bug-autoconf at gnu.org>
> Hi,
> 
> When I tried to install network package an error ocurred to me
> below you can find a more detailed description on what it is and how it 
> can be fixed
> - I figured you might be interested
> 
> Best regards,
> Mark
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Ralf Wildenhues* < Ralf.Wildenhues at gmx.de 
> <mailto:Ralf.Wildenhues at gmx.de>>
> Date: 10-May-2007 08:59
> Subject: Re: Report this to bug-autoconf at gnu.org 
> <mailto:bug-autoconf at gnu.org>
> To: Marek Burza < mkburza at gmail.com <mailto:mkburza at gmail.com>>
> Cc: bug-autoconf at gnu.org <mailto:bug-autoconf at gnu.org>
> 
> Hello Marek,
> 
> Thanks for the report.
> 
> * Marek Burza wrote on Wed, May 09, 2007 at 05:57:45PM CEST:
>  >
>  > I was trying to install an extension (network-2.0) to Haskell on cygwin
>  > and I got an error or warning which requested to be reported to you :)
>  > You can see the output below and if you need more info I'll be glad to
>  > provide it to you.
> [...]
> 
>  > checking winsock.h usability... no
>  > checking winsock.h presence... yes
>  > configure: WARNING: winsock.h: present but cannot be compiled
>  > configure: WARNING: winsock.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
>  > configure: WARNING: winsock.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
>  > configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
>  > configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to bug-autoconf at gnu.org 
> <mailto:bug-autoconf at gnu.org>. ##
>  > configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
>  > checking for winsock.h... yes
> [...]
> 
> Please read
>    
> http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Present-But-Cannot-Be-Compiled.html
> 
> and then show that to the maintainer of the Haskell package, who can
> fix this in his package.  The error becomes clearer if you look at the
> part of the config.log file that deals with this compile failure (and
> maybe also some Cygwin documentation).
> 
>  > nlv13536 at NLVEHVRES2DT1C9 $ runghc Setup.hs build
>  > Preprocessing library network-2.0.. .
>  > Building network-2.0...
>  > cbits\ancilData.c: In function `sendFd':
>  >
>  > cbits\ancilData.c:47:0:
>  >     error: variable `msg' has initializer but incomplete type
> [...]
> 
> FWIW, these may or may not be followup errors; I don't know.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>