Fw: Re: [nhc-bugs] a problem with 1.12

[Malcolm Wallace]

I have now found the cause of this installation bug:

> > It turned out that I had everything, except for
> >        , includePaths = [""]
> > 
> > Anyway, I fixed this manually, and the build seemed to proceed
> > smoothly. Installation complained a little:
> > 
> >            Adjusting... hmakerc
> >    shUsage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
> >    Try `grep --help' for more information.
> >    : NHC98INCDIR: not found
> >    shUsage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
> >    Try `grep --help' for more information.
> >    : NHC98INCDIR: not found
> >            hat-trail.jar
> >            hood.jar

It is due to a feature of certain unix-derived operating systems, where
in a system() call, the caret character (^) is interpreted as a pipe
operator (|).  (This is a legacy from the original Unix shell I think.)

If you need to fix this bug in hmake-config, a patch is now available at
    ftp://ftp.cs.york.ac.uk/pub/haskell/nhc98/patch-1.12-hmake-config

Regards,
    Malcolm