[Yhc] Building yhc failed

[Echaozh Zhang]

Thank you very much for the reply.

I am new in Haskell and not aware of such a thing as an mtl library at all...
Now that I installed it, the build was successful.

I hope I will get along with Haskell, and the community as well : )

Thanks again.

Yichao

On 11/29/06, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> What version of GHC do you have? If its an old version you might need
> to upgrade, if its a newer version (6.6) you might need to install the
> mtl library (monad transformer library)
>
> If you have any doubt please send the output from "ghc --version" and
> I'm sure we can figure it out.
>
> Thanks
>
> Neil
>
> On 11/29/06, Echaozh Zhang <echaozh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm trying to build yhc on my debian machine. When I'm executing scons
> > build, it reports the following error:
> >
> > $ scons build
> > scons: Reading SConscript files ...
> > Building version 0.7.0-20061129043224-custom.
> > Checking for architecture... (cached) x86
> > Checking for operating system... (cached) linux2
> > Checking for C header file gmp.h... (cached) yes
> > Checking for mpz_t integ; mpz_init (integ) in C library gmp... (cached) yes
> > Checking for libgmp version... (cached)
> > Bootstrapping...
> > build/SConscript.depends -> depends/SConscript
> > build/SConscript.cpphs -> depends/cpphs/SConscript
> > build/SConscript.filepath -> depends/filepath/SConscript
> > build/SConscript.ctypes -> depends/ctypes/SConscript
> > build/SConscript.libffi -> depends/ctypes/libffi/SConscript
> > build/ffih/fficonfig.h -> depends/ctypes/libffi/fficonfig.h
> > build/ffih/ffi.h -> depends/ctypes/libffi/include/ffi.h
> > build/ffih/cfield.c -> depends/ctypes/libffi/src/cfield.c
> > bootstrap/packages/yhc-base/1.0/Prelude.hi ->
> > src/packages/yhc-base-1.0/Prelude.hi
> > bootstrap/packages/yhc-base/1.0/PreludeBuiltin.hi ->
> > src/packages/yhc-base-1.0/PreludeBuiltin.hi
> > bootstrap/packages/yhc-base/1.0/YHC/Internal.hi ->
> > src/packages/yhc-base-1.0/YHC/Internal.hi
> > bootstrap/packages/yhc-base/1.0/Data/Ratio.hi ->
> > src/packages/yhc-base-1.0/Data/Ratio.hi
> > Done.
> > scons: done reading SConscript files.
> > scons: Building targets ...
> > Getting dependencies for src/compiler98/Bind.hs.
> > Getting dependencies for src/compiler98/Util/Text.hs.
> > ghc -i./src/compiler98 -i./src/libraries/general
> > -i./src/libraries/core -idepends/cpphs -idepends/filepath
> > -i./src/interactive -package mtl -fwarn-missing-signatures -c
> > src/compiler98/Util/Text.hs -o src/compiler98/Util/Text.o
> > ghc-6.6: unknown package: mtl
> > scons: *** [src/compiler98/Util/Text.o] Error 1
> > scons: building terminated because of errors.