[Yhc] YHC build finished successfully, but install is not "fairly trivial"

[Jared Updike]

Hello all,

I just 'darcs got' the sources and compiled YHC on Linux (Ubuntu) last
night. I got it to compile just fine with 'make' but on the install
side of things I ran into a number of problems.

I read on the wiki (YHC/Building) that

> There currently isn't a 'make install', but it is fairly trivial: simply copy the contents of the
> 'inst' directory into where everything should be installed.

I didn't find this to be the case. I copied the 'inst' folder to
'/usr/lib/yhc', but then (1) I had to set up an environment variable
YHC_BASE_PATH to point there, (2) I had to symlink 'yhi' and 'yhc' to
'/usr/bin'.

That really wasn't that big of a deal. I ran YHC on a test Haskell
script, called Main.hs:

> module Main (main) where
>
> fac 0 = 1
> fac n | n > 0 = n * fac (n-1)
>
> main = print $ fac 30

and it succeeds. But, trying to run the .hbc file with yhi fails:
--------
ERROR: couldn't find module named 'Data/Ratio'
tried:
        Data/Ratio.hbc
        /usr/lib/yhc/lib/yhc/packages/yhc-base/1.0/Data/Ratio.hbc
--------
In that directory, there exist a bunch of .hbc and .hi file pairs
(Char, Array, List, Ix, Complex, Maybe, PackedString, _CharNumeric) ,
AND Ratio.hi, but no Ratio.hbc ...,
(incidentally, /usr/lib/yhc/lib/yhc/packages/haskell98/1.0/Ratio.hbc
DOES exist...)

The question is, why does running my factorial program trigger a
Data.Ratio error? I think it's an installation problem, and it's
probably related to the fact that...

... I can't really get most of the test suite to run. (Here is a link
to the error output stream of runtests.py:
http://www.updike.org/~jared/here/err.txt (164kB))

This is not "fairly trivial", this is disheartening. What am I
missing? I will update the wiki when I get it working, if I can get
some help with the path and directory scheme, environment variables,
and other black magic.

  Jared.

P.S. I am still really excited about YHC!

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