[nhc-bugs] building on Debian 3.0

Richard Uhtenwoldt ru@river.org
Tue, 04 Feb 2003 22:12:17 -0800


The web site lists these two places to get Debian packages (.debs):

   ix86-Linux for Debian:  http://people.debian.org/~bfulgham/nhc98
   http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Software/Haskell/debian/
 
--but neither link leads anywhere fruitful.
So, I decide to build from nhc98src-1.14a.tar.gz
on my Debian 3.0 ("Woody") machine, getting the following fatal error:

   sh /n/cs/nhc98-1.14a/targets/ix86-Linux/hmake3.config
   hmake-config: Warning: Config file not found:
     '/n/cs/nhc98-1.14a/lib/ix86-Linux/hmakerc'
   hmake-config: Starting new config from scratch.
   sh: /usr/bin/ghc-pkg-5.02.2: No such file or directory

On my system, 
   /usr/bin/ghc-pkg
is a symlink to
   /etc/alternatives/ghc-pkg
which is a symlink to
   /usr/lib/ghc-5.02.2/bin/ghc-pkg
which is a symlink to
   ghc-pkg-5.02.2

(Yes, I do that many symlinks is stupid.)

Please tell me the easiest way to get basic NHC installed.